scholarly journals THE GENUS PODISMA IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

1903 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 295-302
Author(s):  
E. M. Walker
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Old World ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Alpine Distribution

Podisma (Latr.) is a particularly interesting genus of Melanopli, since it is the only one of that immense group that occurs in the Old World, where, indeed, it is represented by considerably more described species than it is in North America. It is also of interest from its distinctly boreal and alpine distribution, being almost peculiar to high latitudes or altitudes. It is a circumpolar genus, inhabiting the mountains and boreal parts of Europe, Asia and North America, a larger number of species having been described from Europe than elsewhere.

Some Amerasian Pottery Traits in North Asian Prehistory

1953 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Tolstoy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Eastern Siberia ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Subject

Asiatic origins have, at one time or another, been suggested or at least considered for a number of traits connected with the manufacture and decoration of the earlier New World pottery. The well-known paper by McKern (1937) is among the most explicit statements on the subject. Griffin (1946; Sears and Griffin 1950a) has held similar views for some time. Like McKern, he has primarily in mind traits of the Woodland pattern of eastern North America, although he also mentions some non-Woodland traits among those which have counterparts in the Old World (1946, p. 45).Since McKern's paper, the distribution in time of the traits involved has become a lot better established. With the help of the still suspiciously regarded radiocarbon dates, our perspective on ceramic history in the United States has been extended over a span which appears to be that of some four millennia. Among the more significant additions to the Asiatic half of the distributional picture first place must be given to recent Soviet work in eastern Siberia.

The Archaeology of the Lena Basin and its New World Relationships, Part I

1958 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Tolstoy
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
New World ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Bering Strait ◽  
Old World ◽  
Early Woodland ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Lena Basin

In an earlier study (Tolstoy 1953b), we attempted to outline the Old World distributions of a limited number of ceramic elements and to make a case for their introduction into North America some 3000 to 4000 years ago. Russian reports that have appeared or become available to us since then (Okladnikov 1945, 1946, 1950b, 1955a, 1955b), as well as recent work this side of Bering Strait, prompt now a review of the sequence in the Lena Basin as a whole with North America parallels in mind. The main emphasis here is on the Neolithic of the Lena drainage and Archaic to Early Woodland developments in eastern North America.

Two New Species of Bibloplectus Reitter (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from the Orlando Park Collection, Field Museum of Natural History

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4407 (2) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
BRITTANY E. OWENS ◽  
CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Field Museum ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Species Type

Two new species of Bibloplectus Reitter, 1881 are described from the Orlando Park Collection of Pselaphinae at the FMNH (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA): Bibloplectus silvestris Owens and Carlton, new species (type locality, Urbana, IL, USA) and Bibloplectus wingi Owens and Carlton, new species (type locality, Shades State Park, IN, USA). Types of these new species were part of a series of specimens bearing unpublished Park manuscript names in both the pinned and slide collection at the FMNH. They bring the total number of species in the genus in eastern North America to twenty-three. Resolving these manuscript names adds to previous efforts to uncover elements of the hidden diversity of North American Bibloplectus from museum collections (Owens and Carlton 2016, Owens and Carlton 2017) and highlights the importance of close examination of the Orlando Park pselaphine collection as a valuable historic and taxonomic resource. 

A unique occurrence of Endophyllum (rugose coral; Devonian) in eastern North America: An ecological and biogeographical puzzle

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver ◽  
James E. Sorauf ◽  
Carlton E. Brett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Middle Devonian ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Old World ◽  
Rugose Coral ◽  
Large Colony ◽  
First Time

Endophyllum is described for the first time from North America. The occurrence of a single, large colony in Middle Devonian strata in New York is both biogeographically and environmentally anomalous: it belongs to an Old World Realm genus but was found in the Eastern Americas Realm, and it occurred in a gray, ambocoeliid-bearing mudstone, a facies in which morphologically complex corals are otherwise unknown. Available evidence suggests that the coral lived not far from where it was found, possibly on a hardground or bank a few km north of the outcrop. Endophyllum ciurcai new species is described.

scholarly journals Phylogenetic diversity anomaly in angiosperms between eastern Asia and eastern North America

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (43) ◽  
pp. 11452-11457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Qian ◽  
Yi Jin ◽  
Robert E. Ricklefs
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
North America ◽  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Plant Species Richness ◽  
Flowering Plant ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Evolutionary Diversification ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Evolutionary Distinctiveness

Although eastern Asia (EAS) and eastern North America (ENA) have similar climates, plant species richness in EAS greatly exceeds that in ENA. The degree to which this diversity difference reflects the ages of the floras or their rates of evolutionary diversification has not been quantified. Measures of species diversity that do not incorporate the ages of lineages disregard the evolutionary distinctiveness of species. In contrast, phylogenetic diversity integrates both the number of species and their history of evolutionary diversification. Here we compared species diversity and phylogenetic diversity in a large number of flowering plant (angiosperm) floras distributed across EAS and ENA, two regions with similar contemporary environments and broadly shared floristic history. After accounting for climate and sample area, we found both species diversity and phylogenetic diversity to be significantly higher in EAS than in ENA. When we controlled the number of species statistically, we found that phylogenetic diversity remained substantially higher in EAS than in ENA, although it tended to converge at high latitude. This pattern held independently for herbs, shrubs, and trees. The anomaly in species and phylogenetic diversity likely resulted from differences in regional processes, related in part to high climatic and topographic heterogeneity, and a strong monsoon climate, in EAS. The broad connection between tropical and temperate floras in southern Asia also might have played a role in creating the phylogenetic diversity anomaly.

The Identification and Study of Indian Shell Middens in Eastern North America: 1643–1861

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Christenson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
North America ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Shell Midden ◽  
Shell Middens ◽  
Work Done

Although the interest in shell middens in North America is often traced to reports of the discoveries in Danish kjoekkenmoeddings in the mid-nineteenth century, extensive shell midden studies were already occurring on the East Coast by that time. This article reviews selected examples of this early work done by geologists and naturalists, which served as a foundation for shell midden studies by archaeologists after the Civil War.

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