faunas
- plural of fauna.
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These include some of the oldest dinosaurs like Nyasasaurus parringtoni from Tanzania and Mbiresaurus raathi from Zimbabwe, as well as rich dinosaur faunas from South Africa, Tanzania, Niger, and Morocco.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
"This is one of the most diverse marine faunas seen anywhere, at any time in history, and it existed just before the marine reptiles and the dinosaurs went extinct," Dr Longrich said.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2024
With hunting of large mammals common almost everywhere today, the answer to our question, we speculated, could well be zero or at best very few places left on Earth with intact large-mammal faunas.
From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2013
“Definitely there was a change in population leading up to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, so something was happening to the faunas prior to the impact,” he said.
From US News • Feb. 24, 2011
In this way the similarity between the Alpine and Scandinavian faunas and floras is assumed to have been brought about.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
