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We investigated the impact of calibration strategies and data types on the timing of the Palaeognathae root using genomic sequences from nuclear (noncoding [CNEE and UCE] and coding [first and second codon positions]) and mitogenomic datasets. The nuclear dataset included 14 Palaeognathae species (13 extant and the extinct moa), while the mitogenomic included 31 species, covering all extant and extinct lineages. The datasets were analyzed with and without internal calibrations. The age estimates were more influenced by calibration strategy than data type, although some nuclear data (CNEE) produced substantially younger ages except for the Casuariiformes node, whilst another dataset (PRM) from a previous study estimated younger ages for Casuariiformes compared to the other datasets. Nevertheless, our results consistently placed the origin of crown Palaeognathae around the K\u2013Pg boundary (62\u201368 Ma), even when using the original dataset that produced the Eocene age. These findings demonstrate that multiple internal calibrations yield consistent results across different sequence types and taxon schemes, providing robust estimates of the crown Palaeognathae age. This improved timing enhances our understanding of the early evolutionary history of this clade, particularly regarding the placement of enigmatic Paleocene fossils, such as Lithornithidae and <jats:italic>Diogenornis<\/jats:italic>, which in this timeframe can be assigned to internal branches within the crown Palaeognathae.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fbinf.2025.1563786","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,7]],"date-time":"2025-08-07T10:06:16Z","timestamp":1754561176000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Internal fossil constraints have more effect on the age estimates of crown Palaeognathae than different phylogenomic data type"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Alexandre Pedro","family":"Selvatti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Naoko","family":"Takezaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"87","DOI":"10.1016\/j.annpal.2015.02.001","article-title":"New fossil bird remains from the chichinales formation (early miocene) of Northern Patagonia, Argentina","volume":"101","author":"Agnolin","year":"2015","journal-title":"Ann. 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