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 viii
... interesting part of my work . While this was in progress I found it necessary to make a careful summary of the distribu- tion of extinct Mammalia . This was a difficult task , owing to the great uncertainty that prevails as to the ...
... interesting part of my work . While this was in progress I found it necessary to make a careful summary of the distribu- tion of extinct Mammalia . This was a difficult task , owing to the great uncertainty that prevails as to the ...
Page 162
... interesting of these extinct birds are , however , the flamingoes , represented by forms hardly distin- guishable from living species , and by one extinct genus Pala- lodus , which had very long toes , and probably walked on aquatic ...
... interesting of these extinct birds are , however , the flamingoes , represented by forms hardly distin- guishable from living species , and by one extinct genus Pala- lodus , which had very long toes , and probably walked on aquatic ...
Page 206
... interesting to the student of geo- graphical distribution as affording a few examples of local species of very restricted range , but as a rule they present us with exactly the same forms as those of the adjacent mainland.1 Their ...
... interesting to the student of geo- graphical distribution as affording a few examples of local species of very restricted range , but as a rule they present us with exactly the same forms as those of the adjacent mainland.1 Their ...
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