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Page 66
Chelonians of the kind are known fossil from Cuba , Egypt , Northwestern India at
least , and good authority is on record [ 70 ] to the effect that the Eocene /
Oligocene T. ammon of Egypt probably had a common ancestor with the turtles of
the ...
Chelonians of the kind are known fossil from Cuba , Egypt , Northwestern India at
least , and good authority is on record [ 70 ] to the effect that the Eocene /
Oligocene T. ammon of Egypt probably had a common ancestor with the turtles of
the ...
Page 80
It is of course by , and along , a " track ” of this kind that are likewise explained the
" similarities " between fossil " giant " Testudo of Egypt and recently extinct forms
of the same kind endemic to the East African Islands ; and between certain ...
It is of course by , and along , a " track ” of this kind that are likewise explained the
" similarities " between fossil " giant " Testudo of Egypt and recently extinct forms
of the same kind endemic to the East African Islands ; and between certain ...
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... is conspicuously absent , and the zone of most active Tertiary disturbance ( i.e.
, the Nassau Sepik sector ) is additionally lost to members of the family l ; all of
which stamps the dispersal of animals of the kind as very ancient and relictual .
... is conspicuously absent , and the zone of most active Tertiary disturbance ( i.e.
, the Nassau Sepik sector ) is additionally lost to members of the family l ; all of
which stamps the dispersal of animals of the kind as very ancient and relictual .
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