Figure 3 in Adaptive Radiation in Socially Advanced Stem-Group Ants from the Cretaceous

Figure 3. Preferred Timescaled Consensus Cladogram of Cretaceous and Exemplar Extant Ants Based on a parsimony-based analysis of 42 morphological characters using implied weighting (K = 6.875) and a crown-group topology con- strained by previous molecular hypotheses [9]. Timescale included to demonstrate range of Cretaceous fauna: nodes and branch lengths do not correspond to actual diversification times or morphological change, although the earliest di- vergences are constrained not to exceed the age of the earliest aculeates (Bethylonymidae) in the very Late Jurassic [42]. Node values represent boot- strap support measures. See Supplemental Infor- mation for details of analytical procedures.