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. köideHarper and Brothers, 1876 |
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Page 180
... fossil Canopithecus of the Swiss , and the Lemuravidæ of the North American 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 ...
... fossil Canopithecus of the Swiss , and the Lemuravidæ of the North American 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 ...
Page 181
... fossil Pteropidæ have been discovered . FAMILY 10. - PHYLLOSTOMIDE . ( 31 Genera , 60 Species . ) GENERAL DISTRIBUTION . ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB ...
... fossil Pteropidæ have been discovered . FAMILY 10. - PHYLLOSTOMIDE . ( 31 Genera , 60 Species . ) GENERAL DISTRIBUTION . ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB ...
Page 183
... Fossil Vespertilionida . - Several living 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 ...
... Fossil Vespertilionida . - Several living 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 ...
Page 185
... Fossil Chiroptera . - The fossil remains of bats that have yet been discovered , being chiefly allied to forms still existing in the same countries , throw no light on the origin or affinities of this remarkable and isolated order of ...
... Fossil Chiroptera . - The fossil remains of bats that have yet been discovered , being chiefly allied to forms still existing in the same countries , throw no light on the origin or affinities of this remarkable and isolated order of ...
Page 188
... fossil in several Post - tertiary deposits , while extinct species occur in the lower Miocene of Auvergne and in some other parts of Europe . Many of these remains are classed in different genera from the living species ;—( Amphechinus ...
... fossil in several Post - tertiary deposits , while extinct species occur in the lower Miocene of Auvergne and in some other parts of Europe . Many of these remains are classed in different genera from the living species ;—( Amphechinus ...
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