Palkopoulou, E. et al.
taxonomy · topology · methods · range
Primary genome-scale analysis of sampled living elephants, mammoths and mastodon; reticulation and incomplete lineage sorting complicate a single bifurcating species history.
Genome-scale comparisons of sampled mammoths, living elephants and mastodon place Mammuthus within a reticulate elephantid history with introgression and incomplete lineage sorting; the sampled genomes do not establish the genus’s full fossil duration or one bifurcating ancestor tree.
claim:taxon:mammuthus:genomic-topologyMammuthus is displayed at 0.14–0.004 Ma only as the dated genomic specimen envelope, not the full fossil duration of Mammuthus. The interval is a source-bounded sample window, not a global FAD, LAD, divergence date, continuous occupancy claim or direct-ancestor assertion.
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