Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 18. (Budapest 1921)

Éhik, Gy.: The glacial-theories in the light of biological investigation

92 Dr. J. í'.

HIK The geographical and geological distribution of the Monkeys. Africa Europe Asia Holocene Chimpanzee Gorilla Cynopithecidae Lemuridae Chiromyidae Galaginae Macacus Simia Hylobates Cynopithecidae Lorisinae Tarsiidae Pleistocene Macacus Cynocephalus Megaladapis Lemur Palaeopropithecus Archaeolemur Bradylemur Hadropithecus Macacus Pithecanthropus Semnopithecus Cynocephalus Pliocene Anthropodus Bryopithecus Dolichopithecus Macacus Semnopithecus Mesopithecus Oreopithecus Palaeopithecus Macacus Semnopithecus Cynocephalus Miocene Dryopithecus ? Pliopithecus geographical and .geological distribution, may convince us that in Ihe Pliocene the climate was warmer and thus the fauna of a more thermophil type, than in the European Pleistocene or at Present, this thermophil fauna beeing then partly limited to South-Asia and having partly migrated into Africa. 1 should like lo sketch the zoogeographical map of the European Pliocene (fig. 1.) in the following way: We must seek for the limits of the gradually extending ice in the North, about the limits of the present Polar-ice, in accordance with the supposition of the climatic zones having been already developed in the Pliocene ; nevertheless with respect to the more thermophil fauna and llora, we might place these limits even in a more northern latitude. On the map the limits were marked in a, way to correspond to the