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Villafranchian age (/ˌvɪləˈfræŋkiən/ VIL-ə-FRANK-ee-ən) is a
period of
geologic time (3.5–1.0 Ma): 7
spanning the Late
Pliocene and
Early Pleistocene...
- and polecats)
evolved at a more
recent date,
presumably during the
Villafranchian.
Mustela stromeri is
ancestral to
modern ferrets and polecats. The steppe...
- Plio/Pleistocene
transition in
western Europe: New
evidence from the
Middle Villafranchian ****emblage of Montopoli, Italy".
Comptes Rendus Palevol. 12 (3): 165–171...
- Lucenti, Saverio; Rook,
Lorenzo (2016-11-01). "A
review on the Late
Villafranchian medium-sized
canid Canis arnensis based on the
evidence from Poggio...
- ISBN 978-1-4081-3538-9.
Middle Villafranchian Boev, Z. 1999.
Gallinula balcanica sp. n. (Rallidae: Gruiformes) - a
middle villafranchian moorhen from
Western Bulgaria...
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least one
extinct species. The
oldest record of the
genus dates to the
Villafranchian of Bulgaria,
where fossils of
Vormela petenyii have been found. This...
- puma Puma
pardoides (Owen, 1846) (Carnivora: Felidae) in the
Lower Villafranchian (Upper Pliocene) of
Kvabebi (East Georgia, Transcaucasia) and its evolutionary...
- Europe. They
suggested P. b.
licenti (Middle
Villafranchian)
evolved into P. b.
brevirostris (Late
Villafranchian),
which evolved into P. b.
sinensis (Galerian)...
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fossils are
common in Africa, with
records going back as far as the
Villafranchian. As
fossil striped hyenas are
absent from the
Mediterranean region,...
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Europe and Asia, and date back to the
Early Pleistocene. By the late
Villafranchian, S.
scrofa largely displaced the
related S. strozzii, a large, possibly...
