All of the earliest chordate fossils have been found in the Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, and include two species that are regarded as fish, which implies they are vertebrates.

Famous formations from North America include the rich marine fossils of Kansas's Smoky Hill Chalk Member and the terrestrial fauna of the late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation.

Some examples of modern extinctions of " charismatic " mammal fauna include:

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Other fauna present in New Mexico include black bears, cougars, coyotes, porcupines, skunks, Mexican gray wolves, deer, elk, plains bison, collared peccary, bighorn sheep, squirrels, chipmunks, pronghorn, western diamondback, kangaroo rat, jackrabbit and a multitude of other birds, reptiles, and rodents.

* Flora and fauna nomenclatures include the word nigger.

Other associated fauna include the larvae of moths ( such as the Dryandra Moth ) and weevils, which burrow into the " cones " to eat the seeds and pupate in the follicles ; and birds such as cockatoos, who break off the " cones " to eat both the seeds and the insect larvae.

Features include a retired 41-foot US Army Corps of Engineers patrol boat, a 46-seat theater showing continuous DVD presentations on Canal history, Canal flora and fauna, real time radar and camera images of the waterway as well as a variety of interactive exhibits.

These include city streets ( now overgrown with forest flora and fauna ) and a one-room school house.

Desert fauna include the Russian tortoise ( Testudo horsfieldii ) and a large lizard known as the Transcaspian or Desert Monitor ( Varanus griseus ), which can reach lengths of 1. 6 m ( 5 ft ).

Other fossils from the Cretaceous rocks of the Kyzyl Kum include tree trunks, pelecypods, beetles, sharks, rays, bony fish, frogs, salamanders, turtles, crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs, and a varied fauna of small early mammals.

Other common fauna include the Cape Hare ( Lepus capensis ), Egyptian Jackal ( Canis aureus hupstar ), Sand Fox ( Vulpes rueppelli ) and more rarely the Fennec Fox ( Vulpes zerda ).

The environmental movement is broad in scope and can include any topic related to the environment, conservation, and biology, as well as preservation of landscapes, flora, and fauna for a variety of purposes and uses.

Flora and fauna of the region include the normal ecological succession from lowland big leaf maple and western red cedar through Garry oak on up through fire-dependent species such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir, as well as grand fir, silver fir and other species common to Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Some species of fauna commonly encountered in the park include the Southern Brown Bandicoot, Tawny Frogmouth, Brown Tree Frog and Shingleback Lizard.

Threatened fauna recorded in the park include the Brush-tailed Phascogale and Spotted Tree-Frog.

Evidence that this region was the Maya " heartland " include its being located near the center of present-day language diversity within the Maya phylum ( and therefore requiring the minimum number of moves to place the languages in their current locations ), the fact that proto-Maya included words for flora and fauna from both highland and lowland areas, and the debatable idea that it is easier for a group of people to spread from a highland region to a lowland one than vice versa.

Other useful garden predators include lacewings, pirate bugs, rove and ground beetles, aphid midge, centipedes, spiders, predatory mites, as well as larger fauna such as frogs, toads, lizards, hedgehogs,

An odd fact since the Åland fauna did not include larger deer, but had the smaller roe deer.

The most popular activities include diving in caverns, observing the underwater fauna and walking along trails in the forest.

Characteristic fauna of the sea include the Weddell Seal.

Notable sights of the city include the Nuestra Señora del Carmen Cathedral, the Government House, the Torelli Botanic Forest Garden, the Provincial History Museum ( Museo Histórico Provincial ), the Estadio Centenario (" Centenary Stadium ") football stadium, the Guaicole fauna reserve, the shore of the Paraguay River, the Isla de Oro Island, and the Central Square named after José de San Martín.

They crafted the watercourse to include a steep, forested Ravine – perhaps their greatest masterpiece of landscape architecture – all with significant river edge flora and fauna habitats.

Local fauna include the Natterjack toad and the Sand lizard.

The start of the Oligocene is marked by a notable extinction event ; the replacement of European fauna with Asian fauna, except for the endemic rodent and marsupial families called the Grande Coupure.

After the Miocene, fauna of Asian origin were able to establish themselves in Australia.

This continental boundary prevented the formation of land bridges and resulted in a distinct zoological distribution, with limited overlap, of most Asian and Australian fauna, with the exception of birds.

More specifically, they lie between Weber's Line and Lydekker's Line, and thus have a fauna that is rather more Australasian than Asian.

They shared the Asian fauna.

Wallace's line delineates Australian and Southeast Asian fauna.

The toad-headed lizards of genus Phrynocephalus are distributed from northwestern China to Turkey and are one of the major components of the central Asian desert fauna.

Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his knowledge of Indian fauna, used the Hindi word " Bhalu " for several bear species, though Daniel Karlin, who edited the Penguin reissue of The Jungle Book in 1989, states that, with the exception of colour, Kipling's descriptions of Baloo are consistent with the sloth bear, as brown bears and Asian black bears do not occur in the Seoni area where the novel takes place.

Most of the Philippines were never connected to the Asian mainland, and have a largely Asian-derived flora, and a distinct mammalian fauna.

Wallace's line between Australian and Southeast Asian fauna.

Primates such as Assamese Macaque, pig-tailed Macaque, stump-tailed Macaque, Hoolock Gibbon, Ape besides other mammals ( Elephant, Asian black bear, Indian bison, Deer ), birds ( White-winged wood duck, Great Indian hornbill, Jungle fowl, Pheasant ) and reptiles also add to the rich fauna diversity.

The mammal fauna of the park is not well known, though historically it held important species such as Asian Elephant, White-cheeked Gibbons and Red-shanked Douc langurs.

Predators of the Asian mussel vary depending on the native fauna of the area.

The native fauna of Crete included pygmy hippo, pygmy elephant, dwarf deer ( Praemegaceros cretensis ), giant rodents and insectivores as well as badger, beech marten and a kind of terrestrial otter.

In the Jungle of Nool, a jungle environment populated by anthropomorphic fauna, an elephant named Horton encounters a clover inhabited by a society of tiny beings known as the " Whos " of microscopic size.

Local geology suggests that a volcanic eruption on Flores approximately 12, 000 years ago was responsible for the demise of H. floresiensis, along with other local fauna, including the elephant Stegodon.

A large number of animal bones have been found at these sites ; one-fifth of these comprising bones of wild fauna, such as the jackal, hare, chital, rhinoceros and elephant.