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 159
... Eocene , and even in Cretaceous times ; while we have the strongest proof that South America was peopled from the Nearctic , and Australia and Africa from the Palearctic region : hence , the Eastern and Western Hemispheres are the two ...
... Eocene , and even in Cretaceous times ; while we have the strongest proof that South America was peopled from the Nearctic , and Australia and Africa from the Palearctic region : hence , the Eastern and Western Hemispheres are the two ...
Page 178
... Eocene of France ; and it is supposed to be most nearly allied to the peculiar West African genera , Perodicticus and Arctocebus . Canopithecus , from the Swiss Jura , is supposed to have affinities both for the Lemurida and the ...
... Eocene of France ; and it is supposed to be most nearly allied to the peculiar West African genera , Perodicticus and Arctocebus . Canopithecus , from the Swiss Jura , is supposed to have affinities both for the Lemurida and the ...
Page 180
... Eocene , with both Cebidæ and Lemuroids , and the fact that in Miocene or Eocene times a mild climate prevailed up to the Arctic circle . The dis- covery of an undoubted Lemuroid in the Eocene of Europe , indicates that the great ...
... Eocene , with both Cebidæ and Lemuroids , and the fact that in Miocene or Eocene times a mild climate prevailed up to the Arctic circle . The dis- covery of an undoubted Lemuroid in the Eocene of Europe , indicates that the great ...
Page 183
... of Vespertilio have occurred in the Lower Miocene at Mayence , in the Upper Miocene of the South of France , and in the Upper Eocene of the Paris basin . FAMILY 13. NOCTILIONIDE . ( 14 Genera , 50 Species CHAP . XVII . ] 183 MAMMALIA .
... of Vespertilio have occurred in the Lower Miocene at Mayence , in the Upper Miocene of the South of France , and in the Upper Eocene of the Paris basin . FAMILY 13. NOCTILIONIDE . ( 14 Genera , 50 Species CHAP . XVII . ] 183 MAMMALIA .
Page 185
... Eocene times , we may be sure the group is one of immense antiquity , and that there has been ample time for the amount of variation and extinction required to bring about the limitation of types , and the peculiarities of distribution ...
... Eocene times , we may be sure the group is one of immense antiquity , and that there has been ample time for the amount of variation and extinction required to bring about the limitation of types , and the peculiarities of distribution ...
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