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Prehistoric Oceania. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. P. Paleontological sites of Oceania (5 C) Pages in category "Prehistoric Oceania"
Oceania is a geographical region in the Pacific Ocean comprising Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. [2] [3] Numerous species across Oceania became extinct as humans moved across the Pacific. Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand, and Hawaii have particularly large numbers of extinct species, so they listed in separate articles.
Oceania was first explored by Europeans from the 16th century onwards. Portuguese navigators, between 1512 and 1526, reached the Moluccas (by António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão in 1512), Timor , the Aru Islands (Martim A. Melo Coutinho), the Tanimbar Islands , some of the Caroline Islands (by Gomes de Sequeira in 1525), and west Papua New ...
Prehistoric Oceania (1 C, 1 P) A. Archaeology in Oceania (6 C, 6 P) Prehistory of Australia (1 C, 1 P) I. Indigenous peoples of Oceania (9 C, 5 P) L.
Prehistoric Oceania (1 C, 1 P) A. Prehistoric animals of Oceania (8 C, 1 P) P. Paleozoic Oceania (8 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Prehistoric life of Oceania"
Lived in a prehistoric floodplain close to a high-energy river Fostoria: 2019 Griman Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian) Australia: Four individuals have been found in association Fulgurotherium: 1932 Griman Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian) Australia: Fragmentary, but may have been an elasmarian [4] Galleonosaurus: 2019
Prehistoric animals of prehistoric Oceania This category is for Animals of Oceania that are only known from fossils. For species extinct since European colonisation see Extinct animals of Oceania .
From Sahul humans spread throughout Oceania. [3] The name Sahul is used by archeologists, while the name Meganesia tends to be used by zoogeographers. [4] The name Greater Australia has been used, but it has been criticised as "cartographic imperialism" because it places greater emphasis upon what is now Australia at the expense of New Guinea. [6]