Table 5. Inferences for climatic variables for the middle Miocene mammalian assemblage from Somosaguas.

Quantitative models for climatic inference a								Climatic inference g for Somosaguas
Number	Climatic factor b	Continent	Body-size categories c	model d	r2r e	r2p f	r2r − r2p	Inferences	Confidence Interval	Mean inference h
1	Tmin (°C)	Palaeotropics	C,D,E,G	L	0.509	0.247	0.262	−		26.8
2		Africa	G	L	0.556	0.922	−0.366	25.1	17.5 − 32.6
3			G	Q	0.579	0.942	−0.363	26.8	18.9 − 34.8
4			G	E	0.567	0.938	−0.371	25.7	17.0 − 38.8
5	Tmax (°C)	Palaeotropics	B,C,D,F	L	0.583	0.449	0.134	−
6		Asia	C	Q	0.528	0.337	0.191	−
7	Mta (°C)	Palaeotropics	B,C,D,E,F	L	0.633	0.681	−0.048	8.4	5.4 − 11.4	9.2
8			C	Q	0.522	0.534	−0.012	16.7	7.8 − 25.6
9			C	E	0.505	0.533	−0.028	14.2	4.6 − 43.9
10		Asia	C,D	L	0.632	0.929	−0.297	13.7	8.2 − 19.2
11			C	L	0.584	0.990	−0.406	18	8.9 − 27.1
12			C	Q	0.584	0.984	−0.4	18.1	8.6 − 27.7
13			C	E	0.698	0.882	−0.184	19.0	8.9 − 40.7
14		Africa	A,D,G	L	0.733	0.132	0.601	−
15			G	L	0.663	0.713	−0.05	0.9	−4.7 − 6.5
16			G	Q	0.666	0.721	−0.055	0.3	− 5.7 − 6.3
17			G	E	0.644	0.665	−0.021	2.0	0.8 − 5.3
18	P (mm)	Asia	C,D	L	0.516	0.613	−0.097	610.8	− 378.4 − 1600.0	219.3
19			C	L	0.510	0.537	−0.027	389.6	− 1149.5 − 1928.6
20			C	Q	0.529	0.585	−0.056	219.3	− 1365.1 − 1803.7
21	D (months)	Asia	C	Q	0.508	0.850	−0.342	10.3	6.2 − 14.3	10.3

^a according to the different regression models presented in S5 Table

^b as in Table 3

^c categories A–H as in Table 1

^d L, linear regression models; Q, quadratic regression models; E, exponential regression models

^e coefficient of determination of the quantitative bioclimatic models

^f coefficient of determination of the regression between the observed and predicted values

^g only for accurate models (mean ± 95% confidence interval); inference of the best fitting model for each climate parameter in each data subset is shown in bold

^h mean of the best fitting models for each climate parameter in each data subset