GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



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that of onr period, many of our tropical genera occurring in 

 localities which are now included within our temperate zone, 

 and being mixed with others, which nowadays are restricted 

 to a colder climate : a mixture which continues throughout 

 the Pliocene. 



A few families of fishes, like the freshwater Salmonidae, 

 seem to have put in their appearance in Post-'pliocene times ; 

 however, not much attention has been paid to fish-remains of 

 these deposits ; and such as have been incidentally examined 

 offer evidence of the fact that the distribution of fishes has 

 not undergone any further essential change down to the 

 present period. 



[See E. Sauvagc, IMemoire sur la Faune Iclithyologiqiie de la periode 

 Tertiaire. Paris 1873. 8".] 



Fig. 102. — Pycnodus rhombus, a Ganoid from the Lfjiper Oolite. 



