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Meaning of "miocene"
miocene (adjective) - relating to the fifth epoch of the Tertiary period, between the oligocene and pliocene epochs
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- Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 23 to 5.3 million years ago; marked by the drift of continents to their present position.
- The Miocene epoch.
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Miocene volcanic rocks have been found as well.
Ancestral lineages that raised modern platyrrhine families diversified through the miocene.
Miocene silicious clay covering a very limited area.
The remains date mostly to the Miocene.
Miocene members were apparently larger as well.
Their orogeny was just being completed in the Miocene.
Miocene representatives or related forms are unknown.
The volcano began to form in the Miocene.
Miocene beds are still visible.
It existed during the middle Miocene period.
Miocene epoch and glaciation.
The fault was active during the Miocene.
Five major Miocene cooling phases could be identified.
The volcano erupted in the Miocene period.
The late Miocene was the heyday of the giant deinotheres.
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Fossils of this animal date to the Miocene.
It is the largest collection of Miocene fossils from that location.
The choristoderes became extinct by the Miocene.
The plants and animals of the Miocene were recognizably modern.
Pliopithecus is a genus of extinct primates of the Miocene.
It is a Miocene basaltic extinct volcano.
Hypohippus became extinct by the late Miocene.
The cave was constituted in the Miocene conglomerate rock formation.
Their fossil record goes back to the Miocene.
Different Miocene outcrops with fossils from the same period.
Known fossils date from the late Miocene.
Miocene sediments which overlay unconformably Eocene clays are represented by red siltstones.
Its origin has been dated to the Miocene epoch.
Early Miocene sedimentation is seen in basins to the east and northeast of Borneo.
It was formed during the Miocene epoch.
He found on almost all of the Miocene specimens the standard indications of human work.
This mass was uplifted during the Miocene period.
Climate changes in the late Miocene brought an end to this easy living.
It is the eastern slope of a volcano erupting in the Miocene.
It is reputed to be one of the only complete Miocene whale fossils in existence.
Hesperocyonines eventually became extinct in the middle Miocene.
The Miocene formations cropping out onshore have provided a rich mammal fauna.
It died out in the Miocene epoch.
Rhegminornis calobates is an extinct species of turkey from the early Miocene.
Activity until the late Miocene was effusive with andesite as the major product.
These rocks are mainly of Miocene age.
The Miocene deformation is much less intense than in the other parts of Tunisia.
This specimen is the most complete known Miocene sirenian.
Mycorrhizas from the Miocene exhibit a vesicular morphology closely resembling that of present Glomerales.
Odobenids further diversified in the middle and late Miocene.
Large Miocene ignimbrites that cover large surfaces are also part of the regional geology.
The land area expanded northward during the Miocene.
The volcano was constructed mainly during the Miocene within about one million years.
They diversified and became common in the middle Miocene.
Also in the early Miocene more intermediate Basaltic andesites occur along faults and in grabens.
