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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... fossil corals of the Antilles of the 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 ...
... fossil corals of the Antilles of the 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 ...
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... fossil remains show us they did exist not very long ago , what a strong fact it would have appeared for the advocates of continental extensions ! Yet it would have been due to no former union of the great southern continents , but to ...
... fossil remains show us they did exist not very long ago , what a strong fact it would have appeared for the advocates of continental extensions ! Yet it would have been due to no former union of the great southern continents , but to ...
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... fossil in the Post - 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 ...
... fossil in the Post - 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 ...
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... and must be considered to be one of the most extraordinary of the mammalia now inhabiting the globe . ( Plate VI . , vol . i . , p . 278. ) Fossil Quadrumana . Not much progress has yet been made. CHAP . XVII . ] 177 MAMMALIA .
... and must be considered to be one of the most extraordinary of the mammalia now inhabiting the globe . ( Plate VI . , vol . i . , p . 278. ) Fossil Quadrumana . Not much progress has yet been made. CHAP . XVII . ] 177 MAMMALIA .
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... Fossil Quadrumana . Not much progress has yet been made in tracing back the various forms of Apes and Monkeys to their earliest appearance on the globe ; but there have been some interesting recent discoveries , which lead us to hope ...
... Fossil Quadrumana . Not much progress has yet been made in tracing back the various forms of Apes and Monkeys to their earliest appearance on the globe ; but there have been some interesting recent discoveries , which lead us to hope ...
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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