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SINCE 1877, when I discovered the Tertiary Mammalian beds of Santa Cruz, in Patagonia, I have been looking for proofs of the ancient connection between the new uplifted lands of the southern part of the American continent and the other lands of the Southern Hemisphere—Africa and Australia. During my subsequent travels in the interior of the Argentine Republic, including Patagonia, my interest in that connection has been increasing, and I have discovered additional evidence, which showed me the former greater extension to the east, in comparatively modern times, of the actual existing lands. The splendid results of the researches made by the La Plata Museum in Patagonia have revealed a greater number of lower forms of vertebrates, including numerous marsupialia, some of which seem to me closely related to the mammals of the Pleistocene fauna of Australia, and among them Pyrotherium and Diprotodon. I think that my suggestion has an indubitable confirmation in the discovery made by the expeditions which I sent in 1897 and in the first months of this year, under the direction of Mr. Santiago Roth, expeditions that have had astonishing results.
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Note on the Discovery of Miolania and of Glossotherium (Neomylo-Don) in Patagonia.1. Nature 60, 396–398 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060396a0
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