As a result, they have been used as biostratigraphic indicators in a variety of paleontological digs. However, the phylogenetic picture has been complicated by the discovery in Asia of both ancestral and derived carpolestids in the same stratigraphic layer.
These organisms have been utilized as markers in paleontological excavations, but their phylogenetic relationships have been complicated by the discovery of both ancestral and derived carpolestids in the same stratigraphic layer in Asia.