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• TITLE: Inferring Eupolypods Divergence Time Using Bayesian Tip-Dating

  AUTHORS: Yiran Wang, Chunxiang Li

  KEYWORDS: Eupolypods, Mid-Cretaceous, Fossils, Bayesian Tip-Dating

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Geology, Vol.14 No.2, February 27, 2024

  ABSTRACT: According to the most recent Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG), eupolypods, or eupolypod ferns, are the most differentiated and diversified of all major lineages of ferns, accounting for more than half of extant fern diversity. However, the evolutionary history of eupolypods remains incompletely understood, and conflicting ideas and scenarios exist in the literature about many aspects of this history. Due to a scarce fossil record, the diversification time of eupolypods mainly inferred from molecular dating approaches. Currently, there are two molecular dating results: the diversification of eupolypods occurred either in the Late Cretaceous or as early as in the Jurassic. This study uses the Bayesian tip-dating approach for the first time to infer the diversification time for eupolypods. Our analyses support the Jurassic diversification for eupolypods. The age estimations for the diversifications of the whole clade and one of its two subclades (the eupolypods II) are both in the Jurassic, which adds to the growing body of data on a much earlier diversification of Polypodiales in the Mesozoic than previously suspected.