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Table 3 Inferred pattern of early Cenozoic dispersal from continental Africa to Madagascar assuming similar probabilities of dispersal for 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

Colonized Madagascar during the early Cenozoic

22

11

33

Did not colonize Madagascar during the early Cenozoic

28

14

42

TOTAL

50

25

75