• Thumbnail for Late Pleistocene
    The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic...
    37 KB (4,014 words) - 03:13, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Late Pleistocene extinctions
    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw numerous extinctions of predominantly megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses over...
    198 KB (19,397 words) - 23:41, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pleistocene
    The Pleistocene (/ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn, -stoʊ-/ PLY-stə-seen, -⁠stoh-; often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from...
    45 KB (4,791 words) - 05:25, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Panthera spelaea
    Panthera leo fossilis Diedrich, C. G. (2014). "Palaeopopulations of Late Pleistocene Top Predators in Europe: Ice Age Spotted Hyenas and Steppe Lions in...
    43 KB (4,391 words) - 17:34, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pleistocene wolf
    The Pleistocene wolf, also referred to as the Late Pleistocene wolf, is an extinct lineage or ecomorph of the grey wolf (Canis lupus). It was a Late Pleistocene...
    76 KB (8,081 words) - 17:16, 16 April 2024
  • These proposed ages are unofficially termed the Middle Pleistocene and Late Pleistocene respectively. The Chibanian provisionally spans time from 773 ka to...
    2 KB (295 words) - 23:08, 19 February 2024
  • three lowest ages of the Pleistocene, the Gelasian, Calabrian and Chibanian have been officially defined, the Late Pleistocene has yet to be formally defined...
    20 KB (1,747 words) - 04:26, 13 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Domestication of the dog
    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...
    163 KB (19,537 words) - 04:10, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arctodus
    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...
    231 KB (20,798 words) - 23:50, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tapir
    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...
    35 KB (3,496 words) - 17:25, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Toba catastrophe theory
    supervolcano eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is one...
    48 KB (4,928 words) - 16:35, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Insular dwarfism
    (May 2008). "The youngest Stegodon remains in Southeast Asia from the Late Pleistocene archaeological site Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia". Quaternary International...
    51 KB (3,092 words) - 14:48, 3 December 2023
  • 138-155. Eric Buffetaut, Delphine Angst. "A Giant Ostrich from the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Formation of North China, with a Review of the Fossil Ostriches...
    82 KB (8,607 words) - 19:52, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pika
    (Ukraine and Russian Plain, Pleistocene) †Ochotona spelaeus (Ukraine, late Pleistocene) †Ochotona tedfordi (China: Yushe Basin, late Miocene) †Ochotona cf....
    47 KB (4,247 words) - 05:29, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Last Glacial Maximum
    (2004). Ice Age Southern Andes. pp. 25–29. García, Juan L. (2012). "Late Pleistocene ice fluctuations and glacial geomorphology of the Archipiélago de Chiloé...
    70 KB (7,791 words) - 04:56, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
    Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded...
    62 KB (6,160 words) - 13:28, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bison antiquus
    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...
    14 KB (1,505 words) - 00:04, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Late Cenozoic Ice Age
    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...
    29 KB (2,967 words) - 16:35, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ostrich
    were present across Asia as far east as China and Mongolia during the Late Pleistocene and possibly into the Holocene. The genus Struthio was first described...
    18 KB (1,644 words) - 19:11, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pleistocene Park
    Pleistocene Park (Russian: Плейстоценовый парк, romanized: Pleystotsenovyy park) is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha...
    103 KB (8,981 words) - 10:28, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hippopotamus (genus)
    hippopotamus (late Middle Pleistocene-Late Pleistocene, synonym Phanourios minor) †Hippopotamus pentlandi, Sicilian hippopotamus (Middle-Late Pleistocene) †Hippopotamus...
    4 KB (261 words) - 01:29, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Corvus species
    (fossil: Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene of Southern Europe; tentatively placed here) † Corvus moravicus – (fossil: Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene of Central...
    12 KB (1,031 words) - 16:37, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Black Sea deluge hypothesis
    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...
    29 KB (3,255 words) - 10:30, 4 April 2024
  • 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...
    30 KB (3,964 words) - 14:33, 1 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sinomegaceros
    Sinomegaceros (category Pleistocene mammals of Asia)
    Sinomegaceros is an extinct genus of deer known from the Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene of Central and East Asia. It is considered to be...
    13 KB (1,419 words) - 21:15, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caracara (genus)
    creightoni – Late Pleistocene (Cuba, The Bahamas) †Caracara latebrosus – Late Pleistocene (Puerto Rico) †Caracara major - Late Pleistocene (Uruguay) †Caracara...
    10 KB (898 words) - 01:59, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Woolly mammoth
    Woolly mammoth (category Pleistocene proboscideans)
    primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in...
    159 KB (18,112 words) - 15:03, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palaeoloxodon namadicus
    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...
    12 KB (1,237 words) - 23:16, 16 March 2024
  • The Plio-Pleistocene is an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (Mya) and, drawing forward, combines...
    3 KB (441 words) - 15:10, 20 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pleistocene rewilding
    Pleistocene rewilding is the advocacy of the reintroduction of extant Pleistocene megafauna, or the close ecological equivalents of extinct megafauna...
    56 KB (5,591 words) - 01:11, 30 March 2024