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 156
... Europe , we are able to continue the comparison ; and it appears , that at this early period the difference was still more marked . The predominant feature of the European Cretaceous flora seems to have been the abundance of Proteaceæ ...
... Europe , we are able to continue the comparison ; and it appears , that at this early period the difference was still more marked . The predominant feature of the European Cretaceous flora seems to have been the abundance of Proteaceæ ...
Page 157
... Europe ; and it is such as now flourishes best in the warmer parts of the United States . But whatever conclusion we may arrive at on the question of climate , there can be no doubt as to the distinctness of the floras of the ancient ...
... Europe ; and it is such as now flourishes best in the warmer parts of the United States . But whatever conclusion we may arrive at on the question of climate , there can be no doubt as to the distinctness of the floras of the ancient ...
Page 158
... Europe and Central Asia , there would be no such marked contrast as now prevails between temperate and tropical zones ; and at this time much of our Oriental region , perhaps , formed a hardly separable portion of the great Palearctic ...
... Europe and Central Asia , there would be no such marked contrast as now prevails between temperate and tropical zones ; and at this time much of our Oriental region , perhaps , formed a hardly separable portion of the great Palearctic ...
Page 183
... European bats of this family - Scotophilus murinus , Plecotus auritus , Vespertilio noctula , and V. pipestrellus - have been found fossil in bone - caves in various parts of Europe . Extinct species of Vespertilio have occurred in the ...
... European bats of this family - Scotophilus murinus , Plecotus auritus , Vespertilio noctula , and V. pipestrellus - have been found fossil in bone - caves in various parts of Europe . Extinct species of Vespertilio have occurred in the ...
Page 193
... Europe and Asia , and to Lat . 66 ° N. in America , but not going further south than Northern Mexico and the European shores of the Mediterranean , except the caracal , which may be another genus , and which ex- tends to Central India ...
... Europe and Asia , and to Lat . 66 ° N. in America , but not going further south than Northern Mexico and the European shores of the Mediterranean , except the caracal , which may be another genus , and which ex- tends to Central India ...
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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