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Table 2 Names of fossils used to calibrate the tree, with the respective exponential prior parameters used

From: Origin and global diversification patterns of tropical rain forests: inferences from a complete genus-level phylogeny of palms

Fossil name

Hard lower bound (Ma)

Soft upper bound 95% (Ma)

Exponential mean (uncertainty)

Sabalites carolinensis

85.8

88.8

1

Mauritiidites

65

69.49

1.5

Attaleinae

54.8

60.79

2

Hyphaene kapelmanii

27

28.5

0.5

  1. Ma = millions of years.