Tapir Talk Archives

8 May 1997

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TAPIR TALK   -  8 May 1997   -   Vol. 1, No. 8

Contents of this issue:
    1. Venezuelan contacts
    2. Fossil tapir distribution



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X-Sender: gershenz@apollo.sfsu.edu
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 13:04:55 -0800
To: Tapir 
From: gershenz@sfsu.edu (Norman Gershenz)
Subject: Tapir Talk

Re: Venezuelan contacts:

If you are searching for in-situ projects and programsin Venezuela you may
want to consider contacting Lya Cardenas (in-country coordinator in
Venezuela for The Nature Conservancy_ (011-582-285-5121). Good luck.

Norman Gershenz
Director, Center for Ecosystem Survival
Dept. of Biology, SFSU

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Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 13:58:22 +0200
X-Sender: adg23@mail.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE
To: Tapir 
From: Stefan.Schroeder@uni-koeln.de (Stefan Schroeder)
Subject: Re: Tapir Talk Digest - 7 May 1997 - Vol. 1, No. 7


RE: FOSSIL DISTRIBUTION: 

just a short addition to the distribution and evolution of the early Tapirs:
The oldest Tapirs (Isectolophidae) are known from the Eocene of North
America and Asia (without the long nose! which is - as far as I know - first
developed in Protapirus/Oligocene of Europe). In the Oligocene or Miocene a
splitting in the two lineages of true Tapirs (America and Asia) happens and
They reached South America in the Pleistocene across the Mid-American land
ridge which developed during the beginning Quarternary.

By the way, in some parts of the world the tapirs are even used for stratigraphic correlation in Quarternary deposits.

Stefan


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