Chapter 20: Geography and Evolution

Review Questions for Chapter 20

Introduction

• M.J. Fouquette's Lecture Notes on Biogeography
• David Fitch's Lecture Notes on Biogeography

Australia

• The Marsupial Lion Website
• Large Pleistocene Horned Tortoise from Lord Howe Island: Meiolania
• Complete Skull of Diprotodon
• Mammals in Tasmania
• Marsupial Gallery
• Marsupial Lecture Notes and Images
• Image of Tasmanian Wolf
• Sugar Gliders
• Dinnertime at Cuddie Springs: Human Hunting and Butchering Australia's Native Megafauna?
• Despite Its Proximity to Africa, Madagascar's Flora Most Resembles Indo- Australo-Malesian Flora Far to the East
• Eric Pianka's Landscape Ecology and Ecological Biogeography of Australian Skinks

Visit the Source of this Weta Image at The Giant Weta Page

New Zealand

• A 1,250 Year Old New Zealand Kauri Tree
• Threatened Species of New Zealand
• Links to Wildlife of New Zealand
• Moa Pages
• Another Moa?
• Kiwis
• The Amazing Giant Tusked Weta
• Stamps Depicting Giant Wetas and Other Living Fossils from New Zealand
• Tuataras or Here

South America

• Maps of South and Central America Through Time
• Extinct Mammals of South America: Glyptodon and Toxodon [Not responding 4/21/00]
• Charles Darwin's "Voyage of Beagle" Report on Megatherium, Toxodon, etc. in Chapter 5 and Especially Towards the End of Chapter 8
• Visit the Source of this Depiction of the Immigrants Involved in the Great American Interchange
  (S. American Immigrants Shown in N. America and Vice Versa) at the Pony Express Page
  
  

Africa

• The Earliest Known Proboscidean (Including Elephants, Hyraxes, and Manatees) Were the Moeritheres
• An African Expedition Uncovers an Arsinoitherium

Islands and Biogeography

• Visit Present Day Gargano Peninsula, Italy or View an Expensive Rabbit Fossil from Gargano
• Italian Fossil Mammals
• The Gigantic Cuban Owl Ornimegalonyx
• Recent Book: Evolution on Islands
• Environmental and Geographic Worldwide Island Directory

From Gondwanaland to Antarctica

• Diagram of Antarctic Bottom Water (ABW)

The Messinian Event

• Dr. Cowen Removed This Section from HOL Second Edition but Here Are Some Details About the Messinian Salinity Crisis
• Brief Overview of Miocene Epoch
• Map of Meditteranean Sea at Beginning of Pliocene
• The Italian Province of Caltanissetta or Here

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