• 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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    During the Pliocene epoch (5.3 to 2.6 million years ago (Ma)), the Earth's climate became cooler and drier, as well as more seasonal, marking a transition...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (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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    of Geological Sciences, the cutoff of the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being 1.806 million years Before Present (BP). Publications...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    †Enhydriodon – Ethiopia, Late Miocene to Pliocene Genus †Enhydritherium – North America, Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Genus †Lutraeximia – Italy, Pleistocene...
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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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    not reach Eurasia until the Miocene or to South America until the Late Pliocene.: 7  This cladogram shows the phylogenetic position of canids within Caniformia...
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    aethiopicus – Kenya & Ethiopia; Pliocene -Pleistocene †Hippopotamus afarensis – Ethiopia, formerly genus Trilobophorus; Pliocene †Hippopotamus behemoth – Israel...
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  • It is suggested a late Pliocene age (Reuverian) for this flora. Palynofloras from drill cores in the surroundings of Frankfurt am Main and Hanau also suggests...
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    Megalodon (category Pliocene sharks)
    approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Pliocene epochs. O. megalodon was formerly thought to be a member of the family...
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    (Early Pliocene of Empoli, Italy) Gavia sp. (Early Pliocene of Kerč Peninsula, Ukraine) Gavia cf. concinna (San Diego Middle/Late Pliocene of San Diego...
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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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    – Late Pliocene) – Gallus moldovicus, sometimes misspelt moldavicus, may be a junior synonym Gallus aesculapii, a Late Miocene – Early Pliocene "junglefowl"...
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    Bergounioux 1935:78 †Cheirogaster gymnesica Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene †Cheirogaster schafferi Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Chersobius Fitzinger, 1835...
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    The fossil coral Cladocora from the Pliocene of Cyprus...
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    Psekups river in the northwestern Caucasus of Russia, of probable Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene age. Phanagoroloxodon has been suggested to share a close...
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    have been identified as belonging to the genus, extending back to the Pliocene era. Species of Elephas have distinct bossing of the parieto-occipital...
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    Japan and surrounding part of continental East Asia in Middle Pliocene to Late Pliocene (3.5–2 Ma) Japanese archipelago at the Last Glacial Maximum about...
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    material tentatively referred to that genus, in the middle Miocene to late Pliocene of southern California and northern Mexico. Although there are no records...
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