• The Pliocene ( /ˈplaɪ.əsiːn, ˈplaɪ.oʊ-/ PLY-ə-seen, PLY-oh-; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to...
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  • from the Pliocene of Morocco. Geraads, D. (1997). "Carnivores du Pliocène terminalde Ahl al Oughlam (Casablanca, Maroc)" [Terminal Pliocene carnivores...
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  • The Saga of Pliocene Exile (or the Saga of the Exiles) is a series of science / speculative fiction books by Julian May, first published in the early 1980s...
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    The Middle Pliocene Warm Period (mPWP), also known as the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period or the Pliocene Thermal Maximum, was an interval of warm climate...
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  • Piacenzian (redirect from Late Pliocene)
    international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma and 2.588 ± 0.005 Ma (million...
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    "Toutefois, en même temps … et de substituer à la dénomination de Nouveau Pliocène celle plus abrégée de Pleistocène, tirée du grec pleiston, plus, et kainos...
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    Zanclean (redirect from Early Pliocene)
    is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago) and 3.6...
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    Neogene is sub-divided into two epochs, the earlier Miocene and the later Pliocene. Some geologists assert that the Neogene cannot be clearly delineated from...
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    Acinonyx (category Extant Pliocene first appearances)
    Paläontologie, Monatshefte: 225–238. Geraads, D. (1997). "Carnivores du Pliocène terminalde Ahl al Oughlam (Casablanca, Maroc)". Geobios. 30 (1): 127–164...
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    plicodenta (Asia, Pliocene) †Ochotona polonica (Europe: Poland, Germany, France, Pliocene) small-sized forms †Ochotona bazarovi (Asia, upper Pliocene) †Ochotona...
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    brachydactylus Burchak-Abramovich 1939 (Pliocene of Ukraine) †Struthio chersonensis (Brandt 1873) Lambrecht 1921 (Pliocene of SE Europe to WC Asia) – oospecies...
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  • modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene is preceded by the Oligocene and is followed by the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene...
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    Early Pliocene to Late Pliocene or Early Pleistocene of Africa, Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of North America) †Pachycrocuta (Pliocene and Pleistocene...
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    related to Stegodibelodon. Yves Coppens, 1972. Un nouveau proboscidien du Pliocène du Tchad, Stegodibelodon schneideri nov. gen. nov. sp., et le phylum des...
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    Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of WC North America) – formerly Miocorax; Nannopterum? Phalacrocorax sp. (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Lee Creek Mine, US)...
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    Gazelle (category Extant Pliocene first appearances)
    Gazella parasinensis - Pliocene Asia Gazella praegaudryi - Pleistocene Africa Gazella sinensis - Pliocene Asia Gazella brianus - Pliocene Asia Subgenus Gazella...
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    (Early Pliocene of Kansas) Falco sp. (Early Pliocene of Bulgaria – Early Pleistocene of Spain and Czech Republic) Falco oregonus (Early/Middle Pliocene of...
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    genus appeared in North America and later spread to Eurasia during the Pliocene. Diagnostic traits include a strongly reduced P2, a robust P4 with three...
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  • extended to the beginning of the Quaternary glaciation at the end of the Pliocene Epoch. The time span covered by the Tertiary has no exact equivalent in...
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  • Selenetherium (category Pliocene mammals of Africa)
    (Mammalia) dans le Pliocène tchadien [Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: a new Proboscidea (Mammalia) in the Chadian Pliocene]". Geobios. 38 (6)...
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    Deer (section Pliocene)
    appeared around the transition from Miocene to Pliocene (4.2–6 Mya) in Eurasia; cervine fossils from early Pliocene to as late as the Pleistocene have been excavated...
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    denture d'un exemplaire fossile dans les Sables du Kattendijk à Kallo (Pliocène inférieur, Belgique)". Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique. 102...
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    rounded cusps. Sea otters probably diverged from other otters during the Pliocene, approximately 5 mya. They probably arose from the closely related Enhydritherium...
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    The Calaveras Skull (also known as the Pliocene Skull) was a human skull found in 1866 by miners in Calaveras County, California, which was presented as...
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    The fossil coral Cladocora from the Pliocene of Cyprus...
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    Around 10 kya mya Mya million years ago Mega years ago Time ago in Ma Pliocene Last geomagnetic reversal The (Eemian Stage) Last Glacial Period started...
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    negative gravity anomaly and growth faults. Oil and gas discoveries from the Pliocene Moruga Group include Teak (1968), Samaan (1971), Poui (1972) and Galeota...
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    Part of a series on Human history and prehistory ↑ before Homo   (Pliocene epoch) Prehistory Stone Age Lower Paleolithic Homo Homo erectus Middle Paleolithic...
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    A group of fossil shells of Turritella cingulifera from the Pliocene of Cyprus...
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    End-Capitanian Carnian Pluvial Toarcian End-Jurassic or Tithonian Aptian Cenomanian-Turonian Eocene–Oligocene Middle Miocene Pliocene–Pleistocene Quaternary...
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