The results of these analyses for some of
the major early angiosperm groups are summarized
in Table 2. In almost all cases, our
NPRS dates, with either one or multiple fossils,
were older than those ofWikstr¨om et al. (2001),
potentially because we are using a slightly
different tree topology (Soltis et al. 2007a), Likewise,
across the nodes examined here, PATHd8
provided younger age estimates under each fossil
treatment.
The mean