Definitions
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- noun The study of the geographic distribution of fossil organisms.
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- noun The
scientific study of theprehistoric distribution of plants and animals.
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Yesterday, I read "The oldest African crocodylian: phylogeny, paleobiogeography, and differential survivorship through the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary" from the new JVP.
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The Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of Madagascar: implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography.
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The Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of Madagascar: implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography.
WN.com - Articles related to Tourism revenues up 28% in first half - report 2010
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The Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of Madagascar: implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography.
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A sphenodontine (Rhynchocephalia) from the Miocene of New Zealand and paleobiogeography of the tuatara (Sphenodon).
Museum Blogs 2009
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And that can be the case for a tiny bit of some aspect of some molecule, or one aspect of the paleobiogeography of some snail, or whatever.
hernesheir commented on the word paleobiogeography
(n): the study or inference of ancient species, population or community distributions based upon the study of aspects of the fossil and geological record of those entities.
December 31, 2008