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Mauritia is a genus of fan palms which is native to northern South America and to the Island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. Only two species are currently accepted. Mauritia flexuosa is widely distributed across northern South America as far south as Bolivia, extending north to Trinidad, while M. carana is restricted to the Amazon regions of Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, and Colombia.
Mauritia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Mauritia may refer to:
- Mauritia, a genus of fan palms
- Mauritia (gastropod), a genus of gastropods
- Mauritia (microcontinent), a proposed land mass that existed between India and Madagascar
Mauritia is a proposed Precambrian microcontinent that broke away as India and Madagascar separated some 60 million years ago. Evidence consists of detrital zircon found in sand on Mauritius beaches. Analyses of the zircon crystals produced dates between 660 and 1,970 million years and are considerably older than the 8.9-million-year-old basalt that constitutes the oldest formations on the island. The zircons are interpreted to have been brought up from buried continental crust as fragments entrained as xenocrysts within the basalt. Interpretation of a linear northwest–southeast gravity anomaly indicates the microcontinent may extend 1500 km from the Seychelles to Mauritius roughly parallel to the Indian Ocean oceanic ridge.
Usage examples of "mauritia".
In the damper hollows the Mauritia palms threw out their graceful drooping fronds.
Conversation quickly devolved into the hunting available in Mauritia, including the large piscine fighters which offered a struggle to the venturesome.