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is the largest among those from Vieux
Collonges that Ameghino assigned to Talpidae. Although at 4.5 mm it is about as long as his "species A", it is broader, and Hutchison noted the broadness as one of the characters that argue against classification of
471:-like, as in talpids. There is a small perforation on the lower side of the body. This perforation is larger in Ameghino's other supposed talpids, and Trouessart suggested on the basis of this feature that the internal parts of the toes were reduced in
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is known from a single astragalus, Ameghino considered it to be rare. He distinguished six talpid species among the astragali, but according to
Hutchison only Ameghino's species F (which was assigned to Talpidae with a query) is really a talpid.
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Mein, P. and
Freudenthal, M. (1981.) Les Cricetidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) du Néogène Moyen de Vieux-Collonges. Partie 2: Cricetodontinae incertae sedis, Melissiodontinae, Platacanthomyinae, et Anomalomyinae. Scripta Geologica
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is less rounded than in moles. The body is low and nearly square and has a diameter of about 3 mm. The trochlea—a surface on the body of the bone that
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Snakes of the lower/middle
Miocene transition at Vieux Collonges (RhĂ´ne, France), with comments on the colonisation of western Europe by colubroids
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McKenna, M. C. and Bell, S. K. (1997.) Classification of
Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp.
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Notes on type specimens of
European Miocene Talpidae and a tentative classification of old world Tertiary Talpidae (Insectivora: Mammalia)
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is appropriate for names that reference persons, but not for those that refer to places, such as this name, which is derived from
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lacked any features that would ally it with talpids and commented that it was most likely a rodent. In their 1997
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and related species) from Vieux
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296:(a footbone), the species was assigned to its own
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655:(subscription required). Geobios 7(3):211–256.
356:. He listed several species of the family
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374:Veratalpa lugdunensiana
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188:Placentalia
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336:described
294:astragalus
129:Astragalus
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516:Veratalpa
484:Veratalpa
473:Veratalpa
463:with the
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424:Veratalpa
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227:Veratalpa
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133:Veratalpa
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711:Q7920908
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659:60:1–11.
457:navicula
401:Lugdunum
358:Talpidae
328:Taxonomy
310:Talpidae
234:Ameghino
176:Mammalia
164:Chordata
159:Phylum:
152:Animalia
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318:rodent
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465:tibia
366:genus
362:moles
314:moles
304:, by
298:genus
284:is a
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