<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Solé, Floréal</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Plateau, Olivia</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Le Verger, Kévin</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Phélizon, Alain</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2019-10-18</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">We present new species of an enigmatic family of mammals, which is endemic to  Europe, the Paroxyclaenidae: Merialus bruneti sp. nov., Fratrodon tresvauxi gen. et  sp. nov., Paraspaniella gunnelli gen. et sp. nov., and Sororodon tresvauxae gen. et sp.  nov. The fossils described come from six localities of the Ypresian of the Paris Basin  (France): Pourcy (MP7), Mutigny, Avenay, Condé-en-Brie (MP8 + 9), Grauves and  Prémontré (MP10). They allow the description of three new genera and four new  species belonging to the subfamilies Merialinae and Paroxyclaeninae. Two of these  new species represent the earliest occurrence of each subfamily. Fossils from  Mutigny, Avenay and Condé-en-Brie indicate that merialines were more abundant  than paroxyclaenines during the Ypresian. Surprisingly, merialines disappeared from  the fossil record at the end of the Ypresian – the youngest records are close to MP10  – while the paroxyclaenines were present in Europe until the end of the middle  Eocene. Based on comparison with the data presently available for European  mammals during the Ypresian, we suggest the existence of two periods of faunal  turnover that must be more extensively studied in the future in order to be fully  characterized: the ‘Intra-Ypresian Mammal Turnover’ and the ‘Ypresian–Lutetian  Mammal Turnover’. Finally, because the oldest paroxyclaenids appear  morphologically closer to cimolestids such as Procerberus than to pantolestans, it is  suggested that similarities between paroxyclaenids and pantolestans could be due to  convergence.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/308137</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/308137/files/pla_npm.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>https://figshare.com/articles/New_paroxyclaenid_mammals_from_the_early_Eocene_of_the_Paris_Basin_France_shed_light_on_the_origin_and_evolution_of_these_endemic_European_cimolestans/7694456</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1080/14772019.2018.1551248</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. - 2019, vol. 17, no. 20, p. 1711–1743</dc:source>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/56</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">New paroxyclaenid mammals from the early Eocene of the Paris Basin (France) shed light on the origin and evolution of these endemic European cimolestans</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
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