Fig. 5

Comparison of the time estimates of the fossil prior and the time estimates for the new alignments in this study with the time estimates in Liu et al. [34]. a The scatter plot of the prior mean versus the posterior mean (left panel), the posterior mean for the new alignments (FM) in this study versus the posterior mean in [34] fitted to the STAR tree (middle panel), and the posterior mean for the new alignments (FM) in this study versus the posterior mean in [34] fitted to the concatenation tree (right panel). The straight line is the 1:1 line. b The standardized time estimates. The points outside the two dashed lines indicate that the corresponding time estimates from the prior (or from the new alignments) are significantly different from the time estimates in [34]