Again, the differences between the Mongolians and the Xanthochroi are out of all proportion greater than those between the Faunae and Florae of Central and Eastern Asia.
It is possible that similar, or even identical, faunae and florae in two different localities may be of extremely different ages, if the term "age" is used in its proper chronological sense.
And he conceives that the abrupt changes between the Faunae of the different formations are due to the lapse of time, of which we have no organic record, during their "Ante-periods.
Thus there is a vast negative difference between the Cainozoic and the Mesozoic mammalianfaunae of Europe.
The evolutionist, therefore, is bound to grapple with the following problem whenever it is clearly put before him:--Here are the Faunae of the same area during successive epochs.
Hence it becomes highly probable that the well-known similarities, and no less remarkable differences, between the present Faunae of India and South Africa have arisen in some such fashion as the following.
And yet there is no better evidence for the contemporaneity assumed by all who adopt the hypothesis of universal faunae and florae, of a universally uniform climate, and of a sensible cooling of the globe during geological time.
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cainozoic faunae and florae, taken together, bear somewhat the same proportion to the whole series of living beings which have occupied this globe, as the existing fauna and flora do to them.
On what amount of similarity of their faunae is the doctrine of the contemporaneity of the European and of the North American Silurians based?
Kellaart, in his 'Prodromus Faunae Zeylanicae,' says he has seen them in a transition state from dark brown to grizzled grey.
Kellaart, usually a most accurate observer, mentions in his 'Prodromus Faunae Zeylanicae' his having measured a Ceylon elephant nearly twelve feet high, but does not say how it was done.
The description given in his 'Prodromus Faunae Zeylanicae' by Dr.
Jerdon says that Kellaart named an allied species from Ceylon Corsira newera ellia, but I have not been able to find it in his 'Prodromus Faunae Zeylanicae,' nor elsewhere.
The first question is this: "Has any destruction of the river faunae taken place since the first elevation of the Alleghanies, when the same species were thrown into waters flowing in opposite directions?
The broader questions of the boundaries of faunae and of faunal areas I shall bring up only incidentally.
South of western North Carolina the faunae of the different river basins appear to be more distinct from one another.
The main chain of the Alleghanies forms a barrier of importance separating the rich fish fauna of the Tennessee and Ohio basins from the scantier faunae of the Atlantic streams.
That a similar difference in longitude, with free water communication, has no appreciable importance, is shown by the almost absolute identity of the fish faunae of Lake Winnebago and Lake Champlain.
As our knowledge of the Miocene fish faunae of Europe is still imperfect, we cannot locate accurately the period of their disappearance.
This latter fact would indicate a considerable change, or "evolution," since the contents of the two faunae were last mingled.
The time of the commingling of these faunae is perhaps now past, and it may have occurred only when the climate of the intervening regions was colder than at present.
Although water communication is perfectly free for most of the length of the Mississippi, there is a material difference between the faunae of the stream in Minnesota and in Louisiana.
This would be the more important as, with the exception of Brazil, hardly anything is known of the shore faunae upon the greater part of the South American coast.
Palaeozoic Mesozoic, and Cainozoic faunae and florae, taken together, bear somewhat the same proportion to the whole series of living beings which have occupied this globe, as the existing fauna and flora do to them.
Koch's descriptions and figures were published in Deutschlands Crustaceen and appeared also in Panzer's Faunae Insectorum Germanicae continued by Herrich-Schaeffer (which see).
I think the impression that the faunae of the early geological periods were more scanty than those of later times arises partly from the fact that the present creation is made a standard of comparison for all preceding creations.
It thus appears that the alpine, the steppe, and the tundra faunae had entirely disappeared from this region.
The general succession of these great faunae is illustrated in Fig.
The localization of the marine faunae and florae is nevertheless as distinct as that of terrestrial animals and plants, and late investigations have done much to explain the connection of this distribution with physical conditions.
Mueller, in a work on the marine and terrestrial faunae of Denmark, gave some admirable figures of Radiates, several of which are identical with those found on our own coast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faunae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
