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Pannonian Sea for example, still existing in the middle- M i o ce nè (Textfig. 5), whilst in the Pliocene period (Textfig. 6) its waters withdrew, a continental connexion being thus established between the coast of Dalmatia, the offsets of the Alps and the Karst, as well as with Western Hungary and Germany ; as is seen Germany was in those ages already united.by dry land to the coasts of the Adriatic and Greece, wherefore, if we accept the hypothesis of a West e r n origin — as pointed out by p a 1 a e o n t o 1 o g i c a 1 remains found up to now — V. Hofmamvi from the Miocene of Stätzling, as Fig. 6. Aspect of the World at the Pliocene. {After KOKEN [in ARLDT, 1. c] drawn by Miss F. LÁNGH & the author). well as the P 1 i o c e n e and Präeglacial greco-hungarian V. maratlionensis — surmising an identity of species, or at least an orthogenetical connexion — could easily have spread over the same continent ; if on the other hand, an East e r n origin could be thought of — although presently only possible from a speculative point of view — the extension of the Miocene V. Hofmanni may be supposed to have proceeded from Asia towards Germany, from the Caspian Sea northwards, whilst in the Pliocene it might have spread towards Greece and Western Hungary, from the European Brack water Sea southwards, through Asia Minor, and as regards Greece, and thereby eventually also the shores of Dalmatia, even reaching those parts in the Miocene already, from which latter regions then exteding in the Pliocene to Western Hungary