Burmeister's Fauna Argentina

Abstract

FEW districts of the world are so rich in well-preserved remains of an extinct fauna of remarkable and interesting character as the neighbourhood of the city of Buenos Ayres. The immense alluvial plain of the Argentine Republic is the burial-place of the Megatherium. the Mylodon, the Glyptodon, the Macrauchenia, the Toxodon, and many other strange forms of ancient life, whose bones are ever and anon restored to light by the crumbling away of the soft banks of the great rivers which flow into the estuary of the Plata. So abundant, indeed, are they that, as remarked years ago by Darwin, any line whatever drawn across the Pampas would probably cross the skeleton of some extinct animal.