Fossil Chiroptera collected by H.E. Anthony in Jamaica, 1919-1920

Title Variants

Alternative: Fossil Chiroptera in Jamaica

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 1519

By

Koopman, Karl F.

Williams, Ernest E. (Ernest Edward)
Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970
Anthony Jamaica Expedition 1919-1920

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York American Museum of Natural History [1951]

Notes

Caption title.

"June 6, 1951."

"In 1919-1920 H.E. Anthony made extensive collections of cave fossils in Jamaica."

"The foregoing account has, in terms of described forms, not added any radical novelties to the West Indian faunal picture. Tonatia saurophila occurs as a Jamaican endemic, the genus being unknown elsewhere in the Antilles, and is quite comparable to the Jamaican Oryzomys. The discovery of Brachyphylla and Natalus on Jamaica and the rediscovery of the phyllonycterine Reithronycteris round out a distributional pattern otherwise anomalous. Very interesting are the hints presented by the fossil material of faunal replacement, of successive invasions, and successive extinctions. The validity of this conception probably extends beyond the chiropteran order, but additional evidence is needed to translate the suggested picture into concrete terms not alone for Jamaica but for the other Antilles"--Page 27

Title from caption.

"June 6, 1951."

"In 1919-1920 H.E. Anthony made extensive collections of cave fossils in Jamaica."

Subjects

56.9,33(729.2) , Bats , Bats, Fossil , From 2 million years ago , Jamaica , Mammals , Mammals, Fossil , Paleontology , Quaternary , Quaternary Geologic Period

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no. 1519 1951

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 44936178