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V.—The Geological Development, Descent and Distribution of the Mammalia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Karl A. von Zittel
Karl A. von Zittel
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For. Memb. Geol. Soc. Lond.
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The Pliocene mammalian land fauna lived at a period when Europe had already obtained the main features of its present configuration. Italy, to be sure, at the beginning of this period was still partly overflowed by the sea, and in Belgium, Holland, and the South of England, the North Sea extended further over the land than to-day and left behind the deposits known as the Crag. Over the extended mainland of Central Europe, the conditions for the preservation of mammals were, on account of the absence of more extended fresh-water lakes, extremely unfavourable. Only the volcanic tuffs in Auvergne, the fissures filled with Bohnerz of the Upper Rhone valley, and the scattered fresh-water deposits of the Rhone valley, Roussillon and the neighbourhood of Montpellier, contain remains of the Pliocene land fauna, which are handed down in greater perfection in the swampy, and in part coal-bearing, sediments of the Arno valley and in the partly marine formations of Piedmont and the Romagna.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 10 , Issue 11 , November 1893 , pp. 501 - 514
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1893

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page 501 note 1 The genera marked with * appear for the first time in the Pliocene; those marked with † become extinct.

page 505 note 1 The genera marked with † are extinct, those to which (N.) is affixed are of North American origin.

page 507 note 1 In the following table only the species from the Mediterranean region are printed in thick type; those with † are extinct.

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