RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [n.y.].03.25. Falconer says a Parkinsonia, an undoubtedly American plant has spread all over to Punjaub. CUL-DAR205.9.216. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].
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March 25. Falconer says a Parkinsonia, an undoubtedly American plant has spread all over to Punjaub, even into quite desolate places & forests.
Forbes says Morris has found green-sand & Wealden plants identical - which is a considerable gap.
The Pyrenees beds intermediate between Eocene & Cretaceous with equivalent in Balouchistan seem to hold good. How many species peculiar? to the Pyrenees - good cases of lost Faunæ -- Chonetes sarcinulata, which
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from the Falklands, which is only shells most closely allied if not identical with a European species, has a very deep range from bottom of Silurian to upper Carboniferous.
Animals & plants go together in E. Ind. Arch. see map
One Terebratula is common to Australian Palæozoic & European & a living species of this genus is now common to these distant points.
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