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 58
... Eocene or Miocene times ) of the two continents , admitting of the entrance of the ancestral types of Quadrumana into South America , and , somewhat later , of the Camelidae ; while the isthmus south of Nicaragua was at one time united ...
... Eocene or Miocene times ) of the two continents , admitting of the entrance of the ancestral types of Quadrumana into South America , and , somewhat later , of the Camelidae ; while the isthmus south of Nicaragua was at one time united ...
Page 83
... Eocene - we have no clue to the character of its early fauna , or to the land connections with other countries , which may possibly have occurred in early Tertiary times . TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION . In drawing up these tables ,. CHAP . XIV ...
... Eocene - we have no clue to the character of its early fauna , or to the land connections with other countries , which may possibly have occurred in early Tertiary times . TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION . In drawing up these tables ,. CHAP . XIV ...
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... Eocene period . Insects . In describing the Palearctic and Neotropical regions , many of the peculiarities of the insect - fauna of this region have been incidentally referred to ; and as a tolerably full account of the distribution of ...
... Eocene period . Insects . In describing the Palearctic and Neotropical regions , many of the peculiarities of the insect - fauna of this region have been incidentally referred to ; and as a tolerably full account of the distribution of ...
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... Eocene and Miocene periods , the distinc- tion of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions was better marked than it is now ; as is shown by the floras no less than by the faunas of those epochs . Dr. Newberry , in his Report on the ...
... Eocene and Miocene periods , the distinc- tion of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions was better marked than it is now ; as is shown by the floras no less than by the faunas of those epochs . Dr. Newberry , in his Report on the ...
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... Eocene flora approximates closely , in North America , to that of the Miocene period ; while in Europe it seems to have been fully as tropical in character as that of the preceding Cretaceous period ; fruits of Nipa , Pandanus , Anona ...
... Eocene flora approximates closely , in North America , to that of the Miocene period ; while in Europe it seems to have been fully as tropical in character as that of the preceding Cretaceous period ; fruits of Nipa , Pandanus , Anona ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belonging birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili China coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba DISTRIBUTION.-The East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti 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 Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Plate 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