mammalia {TESS}

Dated family level mammalian phylogeny from Meredith et al. (2011): Impacts of the cretaceous terrestrial revolution and kpg extinction on mammal diversification.

Description

This phylogeny describes the species relationship and divergence times of the class Mammalia with 1-3 species included per family, published in Meredith et al. (2011).

Usage

data(mammalia)

Format

The phylogeny is stored as an object of class "phylo". The structure is described in the help page of the function read.tree of the package ape.

Source

Meredith, R. et al. (2011): Impacts of the cretaceous terrestrial revolution and kpg extinction on mammal diversification. Science, 334:521-524

Examples

# load the data
data(mammalia)

# safe the current settings of the plotting device
op <- par()

# set the line width for drawing thinner lines for the branches
par(cex = 0.3)

# plot the mammalian phylogeny
plot(mammalia)

# restore the settings of the device
par(op)