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 154
... North America it is Post - Pliocene only . Bears , therefore , seem to have passed into America from the Palearctic region in the latter part of the Pliocene period . They probably came in on the north - west , and passed down the Andes ...
... North America it is Post - Pliocene only . Bears , therefore , seem to have passed into America from the Palearctic region in the latter part of the Pliocene period . They probably came in on the north - west , and passed down the Andes ...
Page 155
... North America , where it appears to have been developed from ancestral forms of swine dating back to the Miocene period . Antelopes are an Old World type , but a few of them appear to have entered North , and reached South America in ...
... North America , where it appears to have been developed from ancestral forms of swine dating back to the Miocene period . Antelopes are an Old World type , but a few of them appear to have entered North , and reached South America in ...
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... North of whole region 3 North of whole region 8 North of whole region N. America 1 North coasts of whole region N. America 8 North of whole region N. America 2 North coasts of whole region N. America 8 North coasts of whole region N ...
... North of whole region 3 North of whole region 8 North of whole region N. America 1 North coasts of whole region N. America 8 North of whole region N. America 2 North coasts of whole region N. America 8 North coasts of whole region N ...
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 European excl existing extend extinct fauna forests genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hy¿nas 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 Papuan peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions