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 |
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Page 57
... 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 , and forming ...
... 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 , and forming ...
Page 79
... Pliocene or Post - pliocene age . This discovery is most interesting , and gives promise of very valuable results from the exploration of the numerous caverns that undoubtedly exist in the abundant limestone strata of the larger islands ...
... Pliocene or Post - pliocene age . This discovery is most interesting , and gives promise of very valuable results from the exploration of the numerous caverns that undoubtedly exist in the abundant limestone strata of the larger islands ...
Page 81
... 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 occurred ...
... 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 occurred ...
Page 125
... Pliocene deposits of the Ohio and Mississippi . Fresh - water Shells . - North America surpasses every other part of the globe in the number and variety of its fresh - water mollusca , both univalve and bivalve . The numbers up to 1866 ...
... Pliocene deposits of the Ohio and Mississippi . Fresh - water Shells . - North America surpasses every other part of the globe in the number and variety of its fresh - water mollusca , both univalve and bivalve . The numbers up to 1866 ...
Page 135
... pliocene epoch . Such purely Nearctic genera as Procyon , Latax , Erethizon , Jaculus , Fiber , Thomomys , and Hesperomys , abound , many of them ranging to the shores of Hudson's Bay and the barren wastes of northern Labrador . Others ...
... pliocene epoch . Such purely Nearctic genera as Procyon , Latax , Erethizon , Jaculus , Fiber , Thomomys , and Hesperomys , abound , many of them ranging to the shores of Hudson's Bay and the barren wastes of northern Labrador . Others ...
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