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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... REPTILES . These will not occupy us long , as no very great number are known , and most of them belong to a few principal forms of comparatively little geographical interest . Tortoises are perhaps the most abundant of the Tertiary reptiles ...
... REPTILES . These will not occupy us long , as no very great number are known , and most of them belong to a few principal forms of comparatively little geographical interest . Tortoises are perhaps the most abundant of the Tertiary reptiles ...
Page 498
... reptiles of , 281 McCoy , Professor , Victoria , 466 on Pal¿ontology of Mediterranean , recent changes in , 39 sub - region , description of , 199 mammalia of , 202 birds of , 203 reptiles and amphibia of , 204 fresh - water fish of ...
... reptiles of , 281 McCoy , Professor , Victoria , 466 on Pal¿ontology of Mediterranean , recent changes in , 39 sub - region , description of , 199 mammalia of , 202 birds of , 203 reptiles and amphibia of , 204 fresh - water fish of ...
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... reptiles and amphibia of , 415 insects of , 416 New Zealand , objections to making a primary zoological region , 62 extinct birds of , 164 sub - region , description of , 449 compared with British Isles , 449 mammalia of , 451 islets of ...
... reptiles and amphibia of , 415 insects of , 416 New Zealand , objections to making a primary zoological region , 62 extinct birds of , 164 sub - region , description of , 449 compared with British Isles , 449 mammalia of , 451 islets of ...
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