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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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    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna (typically defined as animal species...
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    The Pleistocene (/ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn, -stoʊ-/ PLY-stə-seen, -⁠stoh-; often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from...
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    fossilis) in Eurasia date to around 700,000 years ago (with possible late Early Pleistocene records). It is closely related and probably ancestral to the American...
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    to modern gray wolf populations. Genetic analysis of the remains of Late Pleistocene wolves suggest that across their range populations of wolves maintained...
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  • These proposed ages are unofficially termed the Middle Pleistocene and Late Pleistocene respectively. The Chibanian provisionally spans time from 773 ka to...
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    modern grey wolf being the dog's nearest living relative. An extinct Late Pleistocene wolf may have been the ancestor of the dog. The dog is a wolf-like...
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    2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct. Fried, Alan W. (April 1993). "Late Pleistocene river morphological change, southeastern Australia: the conundrum of...
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    supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It was...
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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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    by Andrei L. Chepalyga for the Late Quaternary sea level rise of the Black Sea. The hypothesis for a Late Pleistocene Great Flood argues that brackish...
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    Bison antiquus (category Pleistocene Artiodactyla)
    lived in Late Pleistocene North America until around 10,000 years ago. Bison antiquus was one of the most common large herbivores in Late Pleistocene North...
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    three lowest ages of the Pleistocene, the Gelasian, Calabrian and Chibanian have been officially defined, the Late Pleistocene has yet to be formally defined...
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    Buffetaut, Eric; Angst, Delphine (2021). "A Giant Ostrich from the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Formation of North China, with a Review of the Fossil Ostriches...
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    Pleistocene Park (Russian: Плейстоценовый парк, romanized: Pleystotsenovyy park) is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha...
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  • The Plio-Pleistocene is an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (Mya) and, drawing forward, combines...
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    Cave wolf (category Pleistocene mammals of Europe)
    mammoth steppe-adapted white wolf that lived during the Middle Pleistocene to the Late Pleistocene. It inhabited Europe, where its remains have been found in...
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    Dauphin & Pickford 1998 (Late Miocene – Early Pliocene of SW and CE Africa) – oospecies(?) †Struthio oldawayi Lowe 1933 (Late Pleistocene of Tanzania) – probably...
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    becoming increasingly covered by an ice sheet in late Pliocene (2.9-2.58 Ma ago) During the Pleistocene Epoch (starting 2.58 Ma ago), the Quaternary glaciation...
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    leopard, is a fossil leopard subspecies which roamed Europe in the Late Pleistocene and possibly the Holocene. The subspecies was first described as Felis...
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    Arctodus (category Pleistocene bears)
    the Early Pleistocene of the eastern United States, whereas A. simus had a broader range, with most finds being from the Late Pleistocene of the United...
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    Megatherium (category Pleistocene xenarthrans)
    America that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Late Pleistocene. It is best known for the elephant-sized type species Megatherium americanum...
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    (Ukraine and Russian Plain, Pleistocene) †Ochotona spelaeus (Ukraine, late Pleistocene) †Ochotona tedfordi (China: Yushe Basin, late Miocene) †Ochotona cf....
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    However, they had larger molars which are reminiscent of Middle to Late Pleistocene archaic humans and australopithecines. Denisovans apparently interbred...
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    subspecies of coyote that lived in western North America during the Late Pleistocene era. Most remains of the subspecies were found in southern California...
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    Geological Survey (USGS P 1386-I). Schubert, C.; Valastro, S. (1974). "Late Pleistocene glaciation of Páramo de La Culata, north-central Venezuelan Andes"...
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    North America, but became extinct in the region at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 years ago. There are four widely recognized extant species...
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    Palaeoloxodon namadicus (category Pleistocene proboscideans)
    extinct species of prehistoric elephant known from the early Middle to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent, and possibly also elsewhere in Asia. The...
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  • significant effect on the Thames drainage system. However, in the Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene periods (c.3-2 million years ago), the London Basin became...
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    Holocene (redirect from Late Quaternary)
    concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene together form the Quaternary period. The Holocene is an interglacial...
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