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, 2. köideMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 503 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 96
Page 21
... Miocene age , which Dr. Duncan finds to be more allied to existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical ...
... Miocene age , which Dr. Duncan finds to be more allied to existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical ...
Page 57
... Miocene and Pliocene periods , they were separated by a wide arm of the sea . The low country of Nicaragua was probably the part submerged , leaving the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala still united with the North American continent ...
... Miocene and Pliocene periods , they were separated by a wide arm of the sea . The low country of Nicaragua was probably the part submerged , leaving the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala still united with the North American continent ...
Page 58
... Miocene period there was not that marked diversity of climate between North and South America that now prevails ; for when a luxuriant vegetation covered what are now the shores of the Arctic Ocean , the country south of the great lakes ...
... Miocene period there was not that marked diversity of climate between North and South America that now prevails ; for when a luxuriant vegetation covered what are now the shores of the Arctic Ocean , the country south of the great lakes ...
Page 81
... Miocene and Pliocene periods ; but some time previous to the coming on of the glacial epoch , the union between the two continents took place which has con- tinued to our day . Earlier submergences of the isthmus of Panama probably ...
... Miocene and Pliocene periods ; but some time previous to the coming on of the glacial epoch , the union between the two continents took place which has con- tinued to our day . Earlier submergences of the isthmus of Panama probably ...
Page 155
... Miocene periods , the distinc- tion of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions was better marked than it is now ; as is ... Miocene flora of Central North America corresponds generally with that of the European Miocene , CHAP . XVI . ] 155 ...
... Miocene periods , the distinc- tion of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions was better marked than it is now ; as is ... Miocene flora of Central North America corresponds generally with that of the European Miocene , CHAP . XVI . ] 155 ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belong birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Hemisphere Himalayas India inhabits insects Jamaica Japan Java Madagascar Malay Mammalia Marine fishes Mexico Miocene Moluccas NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN Nearctic region NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Neotropical region northern number of species occur Ocean Old World ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS Oriental region Pacific PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB-REGIONS Palearctic region PALEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Pliocene possesses range remarkable seas single species South America South Europe South Temperate Southern Sub-family Sumatra Tasmania Tropical America Tropical and South tropical regions Venezuela West Africa West Indian islands Zealand