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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Leidy, Pliocene fossil fauna of the Niobrara River, in Nebraska, 1863. CUL-DAR205.9.367. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. 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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Paleontology

Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist (3rd Series) vol XI 1863. p. 148

On the Pliocene Fauna of the Niobrara river by Dr Leidy. In this as in the Miocene Nebraska Fauna, the Edentata are absent. In these 2 Faunas there are no less than 12 animals in the Horse family. There is a Rhinoceros in the Pleiocene stage approaching the Indian Rhinos. Dr L. remarks that this Fauna is more nearly allied to the recent one of the old world than to that of the new world.

[Joseph Leidy. 1863. Pliocene fossil fauna of the Niobrara River, in Nebraska. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3rd series, vol. 11: 148-150.]

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