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 121
... deposits ; as well as Theridomys , said by Gervais to be allied to Anomalurus and Echimys , the former now living in W. Africa , the latter in S. America . Edentata . These are only represented by the Macrotherium and Ancylotherium of ...
... deposits ; as well as Theridomys , said by Gervais to be allied to Anomalurus and Echimys , the former now living in W. Africa , the latter in S. America . Edentata . These are only represented by the Macrotherium and Ancylotherium of ...
Page 140
... deposits have furnished an extinct genus allied to the hares - Palæolagus ; one of the squirrel family - Ischyromys ; a small extinct form of beaver - Palæocastor ; and an extinct mouse - Eumys . The Eocene strata of Wyoming have lately ...
... deposits have furnished an extinct genus allied to the hares - Palæolagus ; one of the squirrel family - Ischyromys ; a small extinct form of beaver - Palæocastor ; and an extinct mouse - Eumys . The Eocene strata of Wyoming have lately ...
Page 147
... deposits . Edentata . - These are as abundant and remarkable as in the cave deposits . Scelidotherium , Megatherium , Megalonyx , Glosso- therium and Dasypus , have already been noticed as from the Brazilian caves . We have here , in ...
... deposits . Edentata . - These are as abundant and remarkable as in the cave deposits . Scelidotherium , Megatherium , Megalonyx , Glosso- therium and Dasypus , have already been noticed as from the Brazilian caves . We have here , in ...
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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