Stolarski, J.; Kitahara, M.V.; Miller, D.J.; Cairns, S.D.; Mazur, M.; Meibom, A.
topology · range · methods · geochronology
A four-locus relaxed-clock analysis with deep-water coral sampling estimates Paleozoic scleractinian splits; these are model times, not skeletal occurrences.
A four-locus relaxed-clock analysis places deep-water scleractinian splits near 425 Ma, substantially before the approximately 240 Ma skeletal record, but this is a modelled divergence rather than a fossil occurrence.
claim:event:scleractinian-paleozoic-clockA four-locus relaxed clock places sampled deep scleractinian splits in the Paleozoic, substantially before their skeletal record; this posterior estimate is model-dependent and not a fossil occurrence or exact Scleractinia origin.
claim:taxon:scleractinia