Fig. 2: Relative phenotypic evolutionary rates and disparity through time in early diapsid reptiles.
From: Megaevolutionary dynamics and the timing of evolutionary innovation in reptiles
Branch widths proportional to posterior probabilities for clades stemming from the respective branches. a phenotypic rates among the major early evolving diapsid reptile lineages from the Early Permian to the Middle Triassic. Grey area represents 95% CI around LOESS regression line segmented by geological time bins. Carboniferous rates are not considered here due to low sample size and extremely broad confidence intervals. b phenotypic disparity in early diapsids through time. Box plots represent distribution of 100 bootstraps at each time bin. Lower bound = 1st quartile (Q1); upper bound = 3rd quartile (Q3); notching = median; diamond = mean; minima = Q1-1.5xIQR; maxima = Q3 + 1.5xIQR; outliers = dots. Grey area represents one SD around the means (connected by blue trendline). n = 109 (a, b) evolutionary rates pooled from all unique bipartitions from the posterior trees. c phenotypic rates of evolution in reptiles plotted on the time-calibrated maximum compatible tree from Mr. Bayes. For full tree see Supplementary Figs. 5, 10.
