Use of dated fossil evidence to constrain evolutionary times. Geological age, phylogenetic placement, stem versus crown assignment and uncertainty all affect the constraint.
A calibration constraint allowing a small nonzero probability outside its principal range. It represents uncertainty but still needs biologically defensible tail probabilities.
A calibration constraint assigning zero probability to ages beyond a specified limit. Sequence data cannot overcome an excluded age under that prior.
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