Macrauchenia

The antiquity of the Indo-human race here, judging by the eighty-five feet rise of the land since the relics were embedded, is the more remarkable, as on the coast of Patagonia, when the land stood about the same number of feet lower, the Macrauchenia was a living beast; but as the Patagonian coast is some way distant from the

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The antiquity of the Indo-human race here, judging by the eighty-five feet rise of the land since the relics were embedded, is the more remarkable, as on the coast of Patagonia, when the land stood about the same number of feet lower, the Macrauchenia was a living beast; but as the Patagonian coast is some way distant from the

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The antiquity of the Indo-human race here, judging by the eighty-five feet rise of the land since the relics were embedded, is the more remarkable, as on the coast of Patagonia, when the land stood about the same number of feet lower, the Macrauchenia was a living beast; but as the Patagonian coast is some way distant from the Cordillera, the rising there may have been slower than here.

Chapter XVI 1909

The antiquity of the Indo-human race here, judging by the eighty-five feet rise of the land since the relics were embedded, is the more remarkable, as on the coast of Patagonia, when the land stood about the same number of feet lower, the Macrauchenia was a living beast; but as the Patagonian coast is some way distant from the Cordillera, the rising there may have been slower than here.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

I was at first much surprised how a large quadruped could so lately have subsisted, in lat. 49° 15 ', on these wretched gravel plains with their stunted vegetation; but the relationship of the Macrauchenia to the Guanaco, now an inhabitant of the most sterile parts, partly explains this difficulty.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

From recent sea-shells being found on two of the higher step-formed plains, which must have been modelled and upraised before the mud was deposited in which the Macrauchenia was intombed, it is certain that this curious quadruped lived long after the sea was inhabited by its present shells.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

In North America we positively know from Mr. Lyell that the large quadrupeds lived subsequently to that period, when boulders were brought into latitudes at which icebergs now never arrive: from conclusive but indirect reasons we may feel sure, that in the southern hemisphere the Macrauchenia, also, lived long subsequently to the ice-transporting boulder-period.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Macrauchenia, a huge beast with a long neck like a camel, which I shall also refer to again.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The relationship, though distant, between the Macrauchenia and the Guanaco, between the Toxodon and the Capybara, — the closer relationship between the many extinct Edentata and the living sloths, ant-eaters, and armadillos, now so eminently characteristic of South American zoology, — and the still closer relationship between the fossil and living species of Ctenomys and Hydrochærus, are most interesting facts.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Macrauchenia, the existing small Edentata of their numerous gigantic prototypes?

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003