Sentence examples for most basal member from inspiring English sources

Banksia sphaerocarpa appeared in the second of these, initially called the ' grossa clade' for its most basal member.

Banksia scabrella appeared in the third of these, initially called the "telmatiaea clade" for its most basal member.

The timing and number of hypothesized colonizations has traditionally hinged on the phylogenetic affinities of the aye-aye, the most basal member of the lemur clade.

Mitochondrial DNA studies, however, have strongly suggested that the Cape sparrow among the most basal member (the earliest offshoot) of its genus.

In a morphological cladistic analysis published in 1994, Kevin Thiele placed it as the most basal member of a newly described subseries Integrifoliae, within the series Salicinae.

The common stingray was reported to be the most basal member of the genus, other than the bluespotted stingray (D. kuhlii) and pelagic stingray (D. violacea).

Those dinosauromorphs that are not considered to be true dinosaurs are the most basal members of the group, and they have generally primitive features compared with the dinosaurs.

The most basal members of the land plants and Charophytes, most of the lycophytes (except arborescent lycophytes), basal members of the sphenopsid-fern clade (except: Neocalamites, ferns sister to Pseudosporochnus), basalmost members of the Euphyllophytina: Kenrick, P. & Crane, P.R. 1997: The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants: A Cladistic Study.

These early fossils are important because older fossils are more likely to include the most basal members of evolutionary lineages, lacking most of the specializations of later forms (we use basal here to refer to members of a group that diverged earlier than other members).

Live birth is probably a useful feature for marine reptiles but not essential for invading marine environments three of the four living marine reptile lineages lay eggs on land, and there is no evidence to suggest that the most basal members within each Mesozoic marine reptile group, including sauropterygians and ichthyopterygians, gave live birth, except for mosasaurs.

The fossil record suggests that the strepsirrhine adapiforms and the haplorhine omomyiforms had been evolving independently before the early Eocene, although their most basal members share enough dental similarities to suggest that they diverged during the Paleocene (66 55 mya).