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The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Sudan. There are 188 mammal species in Sudan, of which three are critically endangered, five are endangered, eleven are vulnerable, and nine are near threatened. One of the species listed for Sudan can possibly no longer be found in the wild. [1]
Elephant shrews also occur, and among the larger mammals are the crested porcupine and the rock hyrax. [7] Big cats found in Sudan include lions, leopards and cheetahs. [3] There are many species of antelope as well as giraffes, rhinoceroses and elephants, and monkeys are found in forested areas. [3] Reptiles are abundant but mostly small and ...
There is no consensus for the names of some of the ages. [10]: 17 However, the picture is rapidly improving, since Central Asia has some of the world's best records of Neogene mammals. [5]: 11 In Africa, sequences of fossils (including those of primates) have been determined and some land mammal ages designated, but not yet formally defined.
Lists of mammals by region cover mammals found in different parts of the world. They are organized by continent, region, and country, and in some places by sub-national region. Most are full species lists, while those for Australia and the Caribbean have links to more specific species lists.
Of the mammal species in South Sudan, three are critically endangered, five are endangered, eleven are vulnerable, and nine are near threatened. One of the species listed for South Sudan can no longer be found in the wild. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for ...
The North American land mammal ages (NALMA) establishes a geologic timescale for North American fauna beginning during the Late Cretaceous and continuing through to the present. These periods are referred to as ages or intervals (or stages when referring to the rock strata of that age) and were established using geographic place names where ...
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.