Fig. 5 in New albanerpetontid amphibians from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco and Middle Jurassic of England

Fig. 5. Strict consensus of three shortest trees, based on branch−and−bound search of 20 informative characters scored for 10 albanerpetontid taxa and a hypothetical "all zero" ancestor (see Appendix). Indices of support for less inclusive clades are reported in Table 1. Distribution of apomorphies for all 29 characters are depicted according to the more conservative and preferred DELTRAN character state optimization. Distribution of apomorphies within the gracile−snouted clade is based on one of the three shortest trees that has the same topology for this clade as the strict consensus tree. The ACCTRAN optimization differs in shifting four derived character states one node down towards the stem, as follows: 2(1) to the node for Anoualerpeton; 6(1) to the node for the robust−snouted clade; 22(2) to the node for the unnamed Tertiary clade; and 27(1) to the node for Celtedens + Albanerpeton. Symbols for apomorphies are: horizontal bar, synapomorphic or autapomorphic; circle, convergent. Tree statistics (uninformative characters excluded): tree length = 32 steps; CI = 0.750; HI = 0.250; and RI = 0.826.