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Table 1 Vertebrate fauna of Saint-Antoine de Ficalba, SW France (late Early Miocene, Early Orleanian, base MN3-base MN4)

From: Specialization for amphibiosis in Brachyodus onoideus (Artiodactyla, Hippopotamoidea) from the Early Miocene of France

Supra-familial rank

Species

Mammalian Neogene zone

Chelonia

Ptychogaster sp.

 
 

Testudo sp.

 
 

Ergilemys sp.

 
 

Trionyx sp.

 

Crocodylia

Diplocynodon sp.

 

Serpentes indet.

 Mammalia, Perissodactyla

Diaceratherium aurelianense

(MN3-base MN4)

 

Protaceratherium minutum

(MN1-base MN4)

 

Plesiaceratherium sp. (medium-sized)

(?MN3-MN5)

Mammalia, Artiodactyla

Brachyodus onoideus

(MN3-base MN4)

 

?Hyotherium sp.

(MN1-MN8)

 

Aureliachoerus sp.

(upper MN2-MN5)

 

Procervulus sp.

(MN3-lower MN5)

 

Amphitragulus sp.

(MN1-lower MN4)

 

Cainotherium sp.

(MN1-MN5)

Mammalia, Rodentia

Eucricetodon infralactorensis

(MN3)

  1. The inferred stratigraphical interval, based on mammalian biochronology (Ginsburg 1990; Bruijn et al. 1992; Antoine et al. 1997, 2000; Antunes and Ginsburg 2003), is indicated in terms of Mammal Neogene biozones (MN; e.g., Mein 1989) for each biostratigraphically sound taxon