• Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). The term Middle Miocene disruption, alternatively the Middle Miocene extinction or Middle Miocene extinction peak, refers to a wave...
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  • Greenland ice cap developed later, in the Middle Pliocene time, about 3 million years ago. The "Middle Miocene disruption" refers to a wave of extinctions of...
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    Retrieved 8 October 2009. Gannon, Colin (26 April 2013). "Understanding the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum: Evaluation of Deuterium Values (δD) Related to Precipitation...
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    (2005). "Impacts of orbital forcing and atmospheric carbon dioxide on Miocene ice-sheet expansion". Nature. 438 (7067): 483–87. Bibcode:2005Natur.438...
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    decline of rhineurids began with an abrupt period of cooling called Middle Miocene disruption. The distribution range of rhineurids shrank southward as global...
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  • Langhian (category Miocene)
    in the middle Miocene Epoch/Series. It spans the time between 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma and 13.65 ± 0.05 Ma (million years ago) during the Middle Miocene. The Langhian...
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    Lepomis (category Extant Miocene first appearances)
    timing of this speciation event roughly corresponds with the Middle Miocene disruption that resulted in increased aridity on the plains of North America...
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    niches emerged or became vacant. In addition, whatever caused the Middle Miocene disruption and the Messinian Salinity Crisis did affect the trophic web of...
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    Dryopithecus (category Miocene primates)
    Miocene Climatic Optimum, possibly descending from early or middle Miocene African apes which diversified in the proceeding Middle Miocene disruption...
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    State Park Calvert Formation Miocene North America US: Maryland Middle Miocene Climate Transition and Middle Miocene disruption Cannonball Formation Paleocene...
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    latter part of middle Miocene. The Caprinae tribes probably diverged in the early middle Miocene. The Caprini emerged in the middle Miocene, and seem to...
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    Calvert Cliffs State Park (category Miocene paleontological sites of North America)
    good record of the Middle Miocene Climate Transition and document a minor mass extinction event — the "Middle Miocene disruption." Fossil collecting...
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    Madison County to Duval County, Florida extending into Georgia. The Middle Miocene Disruption, an extinction of many mammal genera begins. A very short dry...
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    The Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum of ~16 Ma. carbon dioxide and a climate change increases, warming the planet. The Middle Miocene disruption, an extinction...
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    2023-02-20. Or Bialik; et al. (Jun 20, 2019). "Two-step closure of the Miocene Indian Ocean Gateway to the Mediterranean". Scientific Reports. 9 (1):...
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    clastic marine rocks of Cenozoic age. Locally, middle Miocene volcanics can be seen as well as Eocene to Miocene aged non-marine sedimentary rocks. There is...
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    Elko Formation (category Miocene Series of North America)
    units in Nevada Paleontology in Nevada Oil shale Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum Middle Miocene disruption Elkobatrachus type locality at Fossilworks.org...
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    pulse of diatom diversification occurred over the course of the Middle and Late Miocene. Earth sciences portal Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–T boundary)...
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    Early Miocene of WC Europe) – includes "Bubo" poirreiri Intulula (Early/Middle Miocene of WC Europe) – includes "Strix/Ninox" brevis Yarquen (Middle Miocene...
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    Collón Curá Formation (category Miocene Series of South America)
    The Collón Curá Formation (Spanish: Formación Collón Curá) is a Middle Miocene fossiliferous geological formation of the southern Neuquén Basin in northwestern...
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    corridors, they gradually closed during the middle and late Miocene: perhaps several times. In the late Miocene the closure of the Betic Corridor triggered...
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  • transition from the Middle Miocene trilophodont (Gomphotherium)-dominated proboscidean faunas of central Europe to the Late Miocene tetralophodont-dominated...
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  • J.; Agustí, J.; Cabrera, L. (1996). "A new chronology for the middle to late Miocene continental record in Spain". Earth and Planetary Science Letters...
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  • to 2.58 million years ago. It features two epochs: the Miocene and the Pliocene. The Miocene spans from 23.03 million to 5.333 million years ago and...
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    Thasos (section Middle Ages)
    was part of Thracia. The island was a major source of marble until the disruption of the Slavic invasions in the late 6th/7th centuries, and several churches...
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    Ordovician (redirect from Middle Ordovician)
    (1996). "Meteoritic, Asteroidal, and Theoretical Constraints on the 500 MA Disruption of the L Chondrite Parent Body". Icarus. 119 (1): 182–91. Bibcode:1996Icar...
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    Jurassic Family †"Edaphodontidae" †Ischyodus (40 species) Worldwide, Middle Jurassic–Miocene (also placed in Callorhinchidae) †Elasmodectes Europe, Jurassic–Cretaceous...
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    and 350 fossil seeds of †Pistia sibirica have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark...
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    volcanoes located over early Miocene sedimentary deposits of the Waitematā Group of rocks and the southern volcanoes over post Miocene sediments. A large proportion...
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    fossils of Sabal lamanonis have been recovered from rhyodacite tuff of Lower Miocene age in southern Slovakia near the town of Lučenec. 27 million year old...
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