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Table 2 Known pattern of early Cenozoic dispersal from continental Africa to Madagascar of extinct and extant terrestrial vertebrate families

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

Colonization history

Family extinct

Family extant

TOTAL

Believed to have colonized Madagascar during the early Cenozoic

0

11

11

Not believed to have colonized Madagascar during the early Cenozoic

50

14

64

TOTAL

50

25

75