The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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Page 142
... World , and somewhere about the same time passed over to Europe . Of the extinct families common to the two hemi ... World type . These conclusions are not im- probable when we consider the much greater size of the Old World continents ...
... World , and somewhere about the same time passed over to Europe . Of the extinct families common to the two hemi ... World type . These conclusions are not im- probable when we consider the much greater size of the Old World continents ...
Page 155
... World type , but a few of them appear to have entered North , and reached South America in late Pliocene times . Camels , strange to say , are a special North American type , since they abounded in that continent under various ancient ...
... World type , but a few of them appear to have entered North , and reached South America in late Pliocene times . Camels , strange to say , are a special North American type , since they abounded in that continent under various ancient ...
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... world by very different groups ; yet they all possess common peculiarities of structure and habits which show that they are members of one stock , and have no real affinity with the Old - World forms which they often outwardly resemble ...
... world by very different groups ; yet they all possess common peculiarities of structure and habits which show that they are members of one stock , and have no real affinity with the Old - World forms which they often outwardly resemble ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya beetles belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros snakes South America southern sub-region Sumatra tapir Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions