The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surfaceWallace, Alfred Russel
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Paleontology; Zoogeography
CHAPTER VII.
EXTINCT MAMMALIA OF THE NEW WORLD.
North America--Post-pliocene Period (p. 129)--Remarks on the Post-
pliocene Fauna of North America (p. 130)--Tertiary Period (p. 132)--
Primates (p. 132)--Insectivora (p. 133)--Carnivora (p. 134)--Ungulata
(p. 135)--Proboscidea (p. 138)--Tillodontia (p. 139)--Rodentia (p. 140)--
General Relations of the Extinct Tertiary Mammalia of North America and
Europe (p. 140)--South America (p. 143)--Fauna of the Brazilian Caves
(p. 143)--Pliocene Period of Temperate South America (p. 146)--Pliocene
Mammalia of the Antilles (p. 148)--Eocene Fauna of South America (p. 148)
--General Remarks on the Extinct Mammalian Fauna of the Old and New
Worlds (p. 148)--The Birth-place and Migrations of some Mammalian
Families and Genera (p. 153) 129-156
CHAPTER VIII.
VARIOUS EXTINCT ANIMALS;--AND ON THE ANTIQUITY OF THE GENERA OF
INSECTS AND LAND-MOLLUSCA.
Extinct Mammalia of Australia (p. 157)--Mammalian Remains of the
Secondary Formations (p. 159)--Extinct Birds (p. 160)--Palæarctic Region
and North India (p. 161)--North America (p. 163)--South America,
Madagascar, New Zealand (p. 164)--Extinct Tertiary Reptiles (p. 165)--
Antiquity of the Genera of Insects (p. 166)--Antiquity of the Genera of
Land and Fresh-water Shells (p. 168) 157-170
PART III.
ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY: A REVIEW OF THE CHIEF FORMS OF LIFE
IN THE SEVERAL REGIONS AND SUB-REGIONS, WITH THE INDICATIONS
THEY AFFORD OF GEOGRAPHICAL MUTATIONS.
CHAPTER IX.
THE ORDER OF SUCCESSION OF THE REGIONS.--COSMOPOLITAN GROUPS OF
ANIMALS.--TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION.
Order of succession of the Regions (p. 173)--Cosmopolitan Groups (p. 175)
--Tables of Distributions of Families and Genera (p. 177) 173-179
CHAPTER X.
THE PALÆARCTIC REGION.
Zoological Characteristics of the Palæarctic Region (p. 181)--Summary of
Palæarctic Vertebrata (p. 186)--Insects (p. 187)--Land-shells (p. 190)--
The Palæarctic Sub-regions (p. 190)--Central and Northern Europe (p. 191)
--North European Islands (p. 197)--Mediterranean Sub-region (p. 199)--
The Mediterranean and Atlantic Islands (p. 206)--The Siberian Sub-region,
or Northern Asia (p. 216)--Japan and North China, or the Manchurian
Sub-region (p. 220)--Birds (p. 223)--Insects (p. 227)--Remarks on the
General Character of the Fauna of Japan (p. 230)--General Conclusions as
to the Fauna of the Palæarctic Region (p. 231)--Table I. Families of
Animals inhabiting the Palæarctic Region (p. 234)--Table II. List of the
Genera of Terrestrial Mammalia and Birds of the Palæarctic Region
(p. 239) 181-250
CHAPTER XI.
THE ETHIOPIAN REGION.
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