faunal interchange

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• Great American Interchange — The Great American Interchange was an important paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America via Central America to South America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea… …   Wikipedia

• Beringia — The Bering land bridge was a land bridge roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) north to south at its greatest extent, which joined present day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages. It was not glaciated because… …   Wikipedia

• Fauna of Africa — Fauna of Africa, in its broader sense, is all the animals living on the African continent and its surrounding seas and islands. The more characteristic African fauna is found in the Afrotropical ecoregion formerly called Ethiopian (the Sub… …   Wikipedia

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• Kerberosaurus — Taxobox name = Kerberosaurus status = fossil fossil range = Upper Cretaceous regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Sauropsida superordo = Dinosauria ordo = Ornithischia familia = Hadrosauridae subfamilia = Hadrosaurinae genus =… …   Wikipedia

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• ?Oryzomys pliocaenicus —  ?Oryzomys pliocaenicus Scientific classification (uncertain) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class …   Wikipedia

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