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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Panthera spelaea (redirect from Late Pleistocene European cave lion)
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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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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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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Last Glacial Maximum (redirect from Late Glacial Maximum)
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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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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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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Chibanian (redirect from Middle Pleistocene age)
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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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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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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Megafauna (section Pleistocene extinct megafauna)
in megafauna as compared to ecosystems in Africa today. During the Late Pleistocene, particularly from around 50,000 years ago onwards, most large mammal...
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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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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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Panthera pardus spelaea (redirect from Late Pleistocene Ice Age leopard)
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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However, they had larger molars which are reminiscent of Middle to Late Pleistocene archaic humans and australopithecines. Denisovans apparently interbred...
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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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Venezuelan Andes (section Late Pleistocene glaciation)
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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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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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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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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Pleistocene rewilding is the advocacy of the reintroduction of extant Pleistocene megafauna, or the close ecological equivalents of extinct megafauna...
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