The extant-carnivoran supertree recovers Caniformia and its sampled living family branches, but its topology and divergence estimates combine source trees, newly inferred gene trees and fossil calibrations; they are not direct fossil observations. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.
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Content packagecarnivora
PBDBtxn:54044
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Claim ledger
topology · medium
The extant-carnivoran supertree recovers Caniformia and its sampled living family branches, but its topology and divergence estimates combine source trees, newly inferred gene trees and fossil calibrations; they are not direct fossil observations.
claim:taxon:caniformia:sampled-topology
Known limits
A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.