An Oligocolius psittacocephalon with a drupe in its mouth. This mouse bird lived during the Oligocene in Enspel, Rhineland-Palatinate, and had parrot-like beak adaptations to consume large fruits. Its fossil was found with large fossilized stone fruit seeds in its crop.

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Eomys quercyi, also known as the Stöffel mouse, is a gopher relative that was able to glide from tree to tree and lived during the Oligocene in Germany.

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Chelotriton paradoxus, a salamander from Miocene Eurasia.

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