• The Early Pleistocene is an unofficial sub-epoch in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, representing the earliest division of...
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    the Early Pleistocene (2.58–0.8 Ma), archaic humans of the genus Homo originated in Africa and spread throughout Afro-Eurasia. The end of the Early Pleistocene...
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    heidelbergensis. Until the early 1980s, early humans were thought to have been restricted to the African continent in the Early Pleistocene, or until about 0.8...
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    lineage or ecomorph of the grey wolf (Canis lupus). It was a Late Pleistocene 129 Ka – early Holocene 11 Ka hypercarnivore. While comparable in size to a large...
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    The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic...
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  • extended back into south Wales during the Early and Middle Pleistocene periods. During the Early and Middle Pleistocene, prior to the Anglian glaciation, the...
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  • the Middle Pleistocene, is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within...
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    set of fossilized hominid footprints that date to the end of the Early Pleistocene, around 950–850,000 years ago. They were discovered in May 2013 in...
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    probably southern Europe, early to late Pleistocene) †Ochotona ursui (Romania, Pliocene) †Ochotona zasuchini (Transbaikalia, Pleistocene) †Ochotona zazhigini...
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    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw numerous extinctions of predominantly megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses over...
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    known from the Early Pleistocene of Europe, also assigned to the genus Pseudodama. Dama vallonnetensis known from the Early Pleistocene of Europe, also...
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    (Africa, Early Pleistocene) †Hippopotamus antiquus, (Europe, Early-Middle Pleistocene) †Hippopotamus behemoth (West Asia, Early Pleistocene) †Hippopotamus...
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     lycaonoides in the Early Pleistocene and the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene of Eurasia and Africa → L. pictus in the Middle–Late Pleistocene and today the...
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    (Early Pleistocene? of Taman Peninsula) Gallus kudarensis (Early/Middle Pleistocene of Kudaro, South Ossetia) Gallus europaeus (Middle Pleistocene of Italy)...
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    P.; Nagel, D.; Vartanyan, S.; Barnes, I. & Barnett, R. (2020). "Early Pleistocene origin and extensive intra-species diversity of the extinct cave lion"...
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    Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene of Southern Europe; tentatively placed here) † Corvus moravicus – (fossil: Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene of Central to...
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    placement in Mammuthus. Mammuthus creticus is the earlier species known from the Early Pleistocene. It is the smallest mammoth and is among the smallest...
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    extinct species of mammutid proboscidean known from the Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene of Eurasia, spanning from western Europe to China. It is the last...
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    species of dwarf mammoth endemic to Crete during the Early Pleistocene to early Middle Pleistocene. The type locality is Cape Malekas on the Akrotiri peninsula...
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    from the original on 2019-12-26. Hulbert, Richard C. (2010). "A new early Pleistocene tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from Florida, with a review of Blancan...
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    Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene) †Megaloceros (Eurasia, Early/Middle Pleistocene-Holocene, ~5700 BC) †Praemegaceros (Europe, Early Pleistocene-Holocene, ~5500...
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    southern England. One of those early watercourses was the Ancestral Thames. However, the course of the river prior to the Pleistocene epoch is not known exactly...
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    around 11.4-11 million years ago. The youngest species date to the Early Pleistocene. In the Old World hipparionines were initially browsers and mixed...
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    The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), also known as the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution (MPR), is a fundamental change in the behaviour of glacial cycles during...
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    extinct mammal species in the family Ochotonidae. It lived during the Pleistocene and early Holocene in northern parts of North America (Alaska, US and Canada)...
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    Hippopotamus gorgops (category Pleistocene Artiodactyla)
    first appeared during the late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene, and became extinct during the early Middle Pleistocene. The species was described by German scientist...
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    from remains found in Eurasia spanning the Middle Pleistocene and possibly into the Early Pleistocene. P. fossilis has sometimes been referred to by the...
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    including various species of dwarf elephants that evolved during the Pleistocene epoch, as well as more ancient examples, such as the dinosaurs Europasaurus...
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    of killer whale identified in the Late Pliocene of Italy and the Early Pleistocene of England. It was smaller than the modern killer whale (O. orca)...
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    Pliocene-Early Pleistocene †R. platyrhinus Falconer and Cautley 1847 syn Punjabitherium Khan (1971) Upper Siwaliks, Indian subcontinent, Early Pleistocene to...
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