Fig. 3: Parsimony ancestral state reconstruction of the phylogenetic mean total length estimations (Supplementary Data 2.3, Table S1) plotted on the strict consensus tree using equal branch length.

(A) stem- and crown-group Crocodylia; (B) body size distribution of all taxa against geological time; (C) Longirostres and body size distribution of the group through time; (D) Alligatoroidea and body size distribution of the group through time. Ages are in Ma.