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DR. LEIDY'S new work on the extinct mammalia and fauna of Dakota and Nebraska, to which is appended a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America, fills a wide gap in Palæontology. It occupies the whole of the seventh volume of the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and is accompanied by a preface on the geology of the Tertiary Strata of Dakota and Nebraska, by Dr. Hayden. Altogether it forms the most important contribution to our knowledge of fossil mammals which has been made since Prof. Gaudry published his famous “Animaux Fossiles et Geologic de I'Attique.” These two books, indeed, stand in close relation to one another, for in the one the chief interest centres in the Miocene fauna, which is the subject matter of the other. I propose to give an outline of Dr. Leidy's work, and to show the relation which the American Mammalia bore to those of Europe, from the Miocene down to the “Quaternary,” or Post-glacial epoch.
The Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska; together with a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America.
By Dr. Leidy. With an Introduction on the Geology of the Tertiary Formations of Dakota and Nebraska; with a map. By Dr. Hayden. (Philadelphia, 1869.)
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DAWKINS, W. The Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska; together with a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America. Nature 2, 119–120 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002119a0
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