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 45
... ocean ( an epoch not very remote geologically ) , we should find nearly all the Carabidae of South America , adapted to a warm , and probably forest - covered country . If , then , a further considerable elevation of the land took place ...
... ocean ( an epoch not very remote geologically ) , we should find nearly all the Carabidae of South America , adapted to a warm , and probably forest - covered country . If , then , a further considerable elevation of the land took place ...
Page 49
... Ocean , about 400 miles west of Valparaiso in Chili . It is only a few miles in extent , yet it possesses four land - birds , excluding the powerful Accipitres . These are Turdus falklandicus ; Anaretes VOL . II . E fernandensis , one ...
... Ocean , about 400 miles west of Valparaiso in Chili . It is only a few miles in extent , yet it possesses four land - birds , excluding the powerful Accipitres . These are Turdus falklandicus ; Anaretes VOL . II . E fernandensis , one ...
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... Oceans . On the whole , 11 families are represented among the fresh - water fish , and about 38 genera . Of these , 14 are specially Nearctic , -Amiurus ( Silurida ) ; Fundu- lus ( Cyprinodontidae ) ; Sclerognathus ( Cyprinidæ ) ; and ...
... Oceans . On the whole , 11 families are represented among the fresh - water fish , and about 38 genera . Of these , 14 are specially Nearctic , -Amiurus ( Silurida ) ; Fundu- lus ( Cyprinodontidae ) ; Sclerognathus ( Cyprinidæ ) ; and ...
Page 58
... Ocean , the country south of the great lakes must have been almost or quite tropical . At an early Tertiary period , the zoological differences of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions were probably more radical than they are now , South ...
... Ocean , the country south of the great lakes must have been almost or quite tropical . At an early Tertiary period , the zoological differences of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions were probably more radical than they are now , South ...
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... oceans continued into late Tertiary times . When the evidence of both land and sea animals support each other as they do here , the conclusions arrived at are almost as certain as if we had ( as we no doubt some day shall have ) ...
... oceans continued into late Tertiary times . When the evidence of both land and sea animals support each other as they do here , the conclusions arrived at are almost as certain as if we had ( as we no doubt some day shall have ) ...
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