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"Bride" Bigger for Norway, Italian and Irish
for Sweden, Tocheryschoor, Scottish and Parisian
for Russia, for Germany Kitten and Kaiser.
for France Barris a Ochlerk,
Attending the Belgian National Geology Meeting. Listened to Dr. Lof's paper "The best life of the Santa Cruz beds of Patagonia."
He showed about six slides of mammals in the flesh by Knight. One a Tasmanian wolf like animal, The real Litlpterna defending its young, loose (then tried) like but not an Antliodaetyl, another of its descendants with before toe and 2 toes.
Santa Cruz fauna strikingly different from any of Northern Hemisphere. No Periiodaeyts, Antiodaeys, Carnivores. Nor have All Rodents of strictly South American types no hair, only mice or rats, beavers. No horses or elephants.
Man in Pampean associated with this fauna.
During Santa Cruz time (and to one seeming from earlier Eocene to later Miocene) there was no land connection between N and S America. First connection during Lower Pliocene. Then came a load of mammals for South America and I