A total-evidence analysis combining molecules, morphology and fossils tests relationships among sampled Araucariaceae; fossil placement is character-dependent and does not set a global family origin.
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References / paperPhylogenetic Analysis of Araucariaceae: Integrating Molecules, Morphology, and Fossils
Escapa, I.H.; Catalano, S.A.
Year2013
Source roleprimary-study
DOI / ID10.1086/672369
Fitness and scope
taxonomy · topology · morphology
Total-evidence analysis integrating living and fossil araucarian terminals; placement depends on sampled characters and terminals.
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Escapa and Catalano analyze 39 araucariacean species—31 living and eight fossil—using molecular and morphological characters; the recovered family relationships are sampled matrix results, not direct ancestry or an exhaustive record of Araucariaceae.
claim:taxon:araucariaceae:profile-taxonomyThe isolated Holyoke bract-scale and the combined family phylogeny do not directly determine diet, habitat preference, growth observation, whole-plant body size or one ecological guild for Araucariaceae; those fields are explicitly withheld or locality-bounded.
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