Phylogenomic matrices sampling major cnidarian lineages recover Anthozoa as one of the two principal cnidarian branches; this sampled topology does not specify an anthozoan ancestor or fossil first appearance.
claim:taxon:anthozoaAnthozoa
Phylogenomic matrices sampling major cnidarian lineages recover Anthozoa as one of the two principal cnidarian branches; this sampled topology does not specify an anthozoan ancestor or fossil first appearance. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.
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Evidence boundary
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Claim ledger
Anthozoa has no supported scalar temporal range in the cited evidence: the phylogenomic analysis tests relationships among sampled living cnidarians but does not date a crown-Anthozoa fossil boundary, so the former 540–0 Ma display is withheld.
claim:taxon:anthozoa:range-boundary-rc50Known limits
- A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.
References
- Phylogenomic analyses support traditional relationships within CnidariaZapata, F.; Goetz, F.E.; Smith, S.A.; Howison, M.; Siebert, S.; Church, S.H.; Sanders, S.M.; Ames, C.L.; McFadden, C.S.; France, S.C.; et al. · 2015 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0139068
- Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
- The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
- Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933