Lineage-through-time plots.

<p>Shown for (a) the backbone raw dated phylogeny; (b) adding species represented by at least two congeners in the backbone; (c) adding species represented by at least one congener; (d) adding species represented by a member of its family and (e) adding species represented by a member of its order. We also show with dashed red lines important biogeographic events: PT = peak temperatures during the Cenomanian (93–100 Mya); KP = Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction some 65 Mya; MSC = Messinian Salinity Crisis (7–5 Mya).