Fig. 2: Focus maps of redescriptions rB and rC (columns) evaluated on fossil localities from the different time intervals, considering the corresponding paleoclimate model simulation (rows).

a rB in the Early Miocene; b rB in the Middle Miocene; c rB in the early Late Miocene; d rB in the late Late Miocene; e rB in the Pliocene; f rC in the Early Miocene; g rC in the Middle Miocene; h rC in the early Late Miocene; i rC in the late Late Miocene; j rC in the Pliocene. Fossil localities that support both queries, only the dental traits query, only the climate query and neither queries, are drawn in purple, red, blue, and gray, respectively. Present-day localities are drawn in the background, for reference. See maps visualization in ref. 24.