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 148
... South America of middle Ter- tiary age . Pliocene Mammalia of the Antilles . - These may be noticed here , as they ... South American Chinchillidæ , found in cave deposits in the island of Anguilla , and forming two new genera ...
... South America of middle Ter- tiary age . Pliocene Mammalia of the Antilles . - These may be noticed here , as they ... South American Chinchillidæ , found in cave deposits in the island of Anguilla , and forming two new genera ...
Page 154
... 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 into South America , where one isolated species still exists . Ungulata . - Horses are ...
... 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 into South America , where one isolated species still exists . Ungulata . - Horses are ...
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... South American genus , is a recent immigrant from 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 ...
... South American genus , is a recent immigrant from 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 ...
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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