Mid-Cenozoic climate change, extinction, and faunal turnover in Madagascar, and their bearing on the evolution of lemurs

Table 1 Holocene terrestrial vertebrate taxa of Madagascar that were present on continental Africa in the Paleocene or Eocene and that likely colonized (or whose close relatives may have colonized) Madagascar prior to the Oligocene, arriving either via vicariance or via transoceanic dispersal from continental Africa

African Taxon (Paleocene or Eocene)	Malagasy Taxon (Holocene)	Class, Order	Disp. adv.?	Fossils found where?
Podocnemididae	Podocnemididae	Sauropsida, Testudines	yes	Cretaceous of Madagascar, Eocene of Algeria and Egypt
Boidae	Boidae	Sauropsida, Squamata	no	Eocene of Egypt and Paleocene of Morocco
Colubridae	Lamprophiidae	Sauropsida, Squamata	no	Eocene of Egypt
Gekkonidae	Gekkonidae	Sauropsida, Squamata	no	Paleocene of Morocco
Scincomorpha	Scincomorpha	Sauropsida, Squamata	no	Paleocene of Morocco
Ranoidea^a	Ranidae	Amphibia, Anura	no	Eocene of Namibia
Phaethontidae	Phaethontidae	Aves, Phaethontiformes	yes	Eocene of Morocco
Lorisoidea	Lemuroidea	Mammalia, Primates	no	Eocene of Egypt and Tunisia
Afrosoricida	Plesiorycteropodidae	Mammalia, Afrosoricida	no	Eocene of Egypt
Myzopodidae	Myzopodidae	Mammalia, Chiroptera	yes	Eocene of Egypt
Nycteridae	Nycteridae	Mammalia, Chiroptera	yes	Eocene of Tunisia

^aRanoidea, previously a superfamily, is now considered a major clade of Neobatrachian amphibians

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