TY - DATA T1 - A species-level supertree of Crocodyliformes PY - 2012/12/01 AU - Max C. Langer AU - Mario Bronzati AU - Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro UR - https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/A_species_level_supertree_of_Crocodyliformes/825425 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.825425.v1 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1240579 KW - species-level KW - supertree KW - crocodyliformes N2 - With fossils found worldwide, Crocodyliformes stands as one of the best documented vertebrates over the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The multiple phylogenetic hypotheses of relationship proposed for the group allow plenty of space for contentious results, partially due to the small overlapping of taxa and disagreeing homology statements among studies. We present two supertrees of Crocodyliformes, based on different protocols of source tree selection, summarising phylogenetic data for the group into a ‘synthetic consensus’. The consensus of the most parsimonious trees, containing 184 terminal taxa, has a remarkably well-resolved branching structure, which may serve as a framework for further macroevolutionary studies. In addition, the IterPCR script was for the first time used in the supertree context to build a reduced consensus tree with the pruning of unstable taxa. ER -