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    The Vallesian age is a period of geologic time (11.6–9.0 Ma) within the Miocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages. It precedes the...
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    fauna—especially large mammals including primates—between the two continents. The Vallesian crisis indicates a typical extinction and replacement of mammal species...
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    area in the Vallesian–Turolian transition and one of few hominoids, together with Sivapithecus in Asia, to survive the so-called Vallesian Crisis. To date...
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    fossil jaws were also excavated in geological formations of Europe's Vallesian, Asia's Middle Miocene and North America's late Hemingfordian to late...
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    genus of amphicyonid ("bear-dog") that lived during the Miocene 10-9 Ma (Vallesian Age) in what is now Spain. The body of this animal was vaguely similar...
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    extinct species of rhinoceros from the Late Miocene epoch (specifically the Vallesian and Turolian European land mammal ages) of the Balkans (including Greece...
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    Ages European North American South American Turolian (9.0 to 5.3 Ma) Vallesian (11.6 to 9.0 Ma) Astaracian (16.0 to 11.6 Ma) Orleanian (20.0 to 16.0...
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  • persisted until the early Late Miocene (Vallesian). Fossils of this machairodont have been found in the Vallesian-age Bahe Formation in Shaanxi, China,...
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    seemed to prefer open woodland habitat, as evidenced by finds at the Vallesian-aged Cerro de los Batallones. As a top predator at Batallones, it would...
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    Cervavitus is a genus of prehistoric deer that lived from the late Miocene (Vallesian age) to the Early Pleistocene (Villafranchian age) in parts of Western...
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    Paratethys timescale of Central Europe. It also overlaps the upper Astaracian, Vallesian and lower Turolian European land mammal ages, the upper Clarendonian and...
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  • Press. pp. 178–193. ISBN 0231113587. Nagel, Doris (2009). "The early Vallesian vertebrates of Atzelsdorf (Late Miocene, Austria). 10. Carnivora" (PDF)...
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  • coprolite in the La Roma 2 site. A species of Hipparion from the later Vallesian was found at La Roma 2. Bones of the rhinoceros Dicerorhinus schleiemacheri...
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    assemblage of the sandpit generally points towards an Early Pannonian (Vallesian) age, as which is in agreement with Kretzoi's original description. This...
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    contains a single species, Tyrrhenotragus gracillimus. Fossils were of Late Vallesian and Early Turolian age and have been found in Baccinello, which at the...
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    France †Aeshna cerdanica Nel & Martínez-Delclòs, 1994 – Late Miocene (Vallesian), Spain †Aeshna dido Hagen, 1863 (Aeshnidae incertae sedis) – Late Oligocene...
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    referred to Bramiscus, discovered in sediments of the Dhok Pathan Formation (Vallesian age). All of the known material was found in the Lower–Middle Siwaliks...
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    was the heyday of the giant deinotheres. D. giganteum was common from Vallesian and Turolian localities in Europe. Prodeinotherium, which was reasonably...
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    1965 as a species of Felis based on remains found in the Late Miocene (Vallesian) deposits of Yassiören, Turkey. This species has a complicated taxonomic...
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  • Luis; Morales, Jorge (June 1997). "A primitive caprine from the Upper Vallesian of La Roma 2 (Alfambra, Teruel, Aragon, Spain)". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie...
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  • malashichevi. Palaeoproteus miocenicus Sp. nov Valid Vasilyan & Yanenko Miocene (Vallesian)  Austria  Ukraine A salamander belonging to the family Batrachosauroididae...
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    hypothesis, D. levius would eventually give rise to D. giganteum by the Vallesian stage of the Miocene, after which the two species continued to coexist...
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    Felidae) from the Late Miocene of Europe: a new species of Felinae from the Vallesian of Batallones (MN 10, Madrid, Spain)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology...
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  • reported to date, and interpret the studied fossils as indicating that the Vallesian Crisis did not have a major impact on the herpetofaunal communities of...
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  • diversity of the Amphicyonidae was decreasing, likely as a result of the Vallesian Crisis, which resulted in the spread of open habitats at the cost of woodlands...
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  • Felidae) from the Late Miocene of Europe: a new species of Felinae from the Vallesian of Batallones (MN 10, Madrid, Spain)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology...
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    Plioviverrops by different authors. The type species, P. orbignyi, lived from the Vallesian to the Turolian of the Late Miocene. It has been found in multiple localities...
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    1–120. Crusafont, M.; Kurten, B. (1976). "Bears and bear-dogs from the Vallesian of the Valles-Penedes basin, Spain". Acta Zool. Fenn. 144: 1–29. Zhanxiang...
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  • years ago (mya) at the Serravallian-Tortonian boundary (the Astaracian–Vallesian boundary in ELMA), and were unearthed between 2015 and 2018. The holotype...
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    Begun, David R. (1988). "Catarrhine phalanges from the Late Miocene (Vallesian) of Rudabánya, Hungary" (PDF). Journal of Human Evolution. 17 (4): 413–37...
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