Search results for "Faunal" - New World Encyclopedia
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- spits. They are largely clastic, with little faunal content. ... low supply of terrigenous material, mostly faunal skeletons made of calcite. ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 17:44, 25 January 2023
- The Eocene is usually broken into lower and upper subdivisions. The ... They further noted that the only families to cross the faunal divide ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- Oligocene faunal stages (division of geologic history by paleontologists, established on the basis of fossils) from youngest to oldest are: ...6 KB (898 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- to explain the patterns of extinction and faunal succession that he and others ... According to the theory, the abrupt faunal changes geologists saw in ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of faunal stages, which is a unit of time based on changes in the observed fossil assemblages, ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:37, 1 November 2023
- The emu is popularly but unofficially considered as a faunal emblem—the ... * Australian Faunal Directory (AFD). 2008. [http://www.environment ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 16:32, 5 January 2021
- and upper parts of the Devonian System. The faunal stages (divisions based on fossil assemblages) from youngest to oldest are: ===Late (most ...10 KB (1,511 words) - 05:54, 25 August 2020
- walnut, hickory, plum, hackberry, and grape. Faunal remains (bones) recovered during archaeological excavations have included bison, elk, deer, pronghorn ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- sq mi or 1,901 sq km). The area was declared a faunal reserve and state forest in 1953 and designated a national park on August 4, 1954. In 1996 an ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- years ago, during the Kimmeridgian to Tithonian faunal stages of the late Jurassic period. The species B. alataiensis de Lapparent & Zbyszewski ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 02:00, 12 January 2023
- to the Philippines, found only in the Mindanao Faunal Region, where it has been recorded in a large number of islands. The species is widespread and ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- unspoiled ecosystem with unique floral and faunal habitats. ... an ecosystem with unique floral and faunal habitats [[Image:Cocos ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- (Moore 1884); its appeal saw it selected as the faunal emblem of the state of Western Australia and initiated efforts to conserve it from extinction. ...16 KB (2,462 words) - 20:23, 11 February 2023
- used to define and identify geologic periods or faunal stages), and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific ...20 KB (3,015 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- diverse ecological niches encouraged floral and faunal adaptive radiation, whereby multiple species evolved from a common ancestor, each species adapted ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- than the pre-dam water, which can change aquatic faunal populations, including endangered species. Some hydroelectric projects also utilize canals, typically ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- Guinea mixing occurred among relatively few faunal groups; some New Guinea species have an Asian origin. As New Guinea drifted north, it collided with ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- *1972 "Geography and ecology as faunal determinants." 549-561 in K. H. Voous, ed., Proceedings XVth International Ornithological Congress ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- by the onset of an ice age, in the Hirnantian faunal stage that ended the long, stable greenhouse conditions typical of the Ordovician. The ice ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- In the process, he established the principle of faunal succession, the idea that each strata of sedimentary rock would contain particular types of fossils ...34 KB (5,105 words) - 06:23, 18 November 2022
