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'''Fauna''' is a collective term for [[animal]] life. The corresponding term for plants is [[Flora (plants)|flora]] |
'''Fauna''' is a collective term for [[animal]] life. The corresponding term for plants is ''[[Flora (plants)|flora]]''; the term which includes both ''fauna''and ''flora'' is ''[[biota (ecology)|biota]]''. The name comes from [[Fauna (goddess)|Fauna]], a Roman fertility and earth goddess. The term was first used by [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] in the title of his 1746 work ''Fauna Suecica''. |
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[[Zoology|Zoologists]] and [[paleontology|paleontologists]] usually use ''fauna'' to refer to the typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "[[Sonoran Desert]] fauna" or the "[[Burgess shale]] fauna". |
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Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of 80 or so [[faunal stage]]s, which are a series of rocks all containing similar fossils. |
Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of 80 or so [[faunal stage]]s, which are a series of rocks all containing similar fossils. |
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Fauna is a collective term for animal life. The corresponding term for plants is flora; the term which includes both faunaand flora is biota. The name comes from Fauna, a Roman fertility and earth goddess. The term was first used by Linnaeus in the title of his 1746 work Fauna Suecica.
Zoologists and paleontologists usually use fauna to refer to the typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna".
Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of 80 or so faunal stages, which are a series of rocks all containing similar fossils.
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