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Meaning of "pliocene"
Pliocene is a geological epoch that occurred between the Miocene and Pleistocene epochs
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- Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 5.3 to 1.7 million years ago; marked by the appearance of humanity's first ancestors.
- The Pliocene epoch.
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During the pliocene and pleistocene age.
It is fairly thin and covers Pliocene lavas.
Pliocene elevation created new habitats for speciation.
It last erupted during the Pliocene epoch.
Pliocene aquifer has been studied little.
Most of the rocks are of the Pliocene epoch.
The pliocene geological epoch.
Time carries her in layers of the Pliocene.
The rocks are pliocene and pleistocene well cemented calcarenites and organogenic conglomerates.
The oreodonts became extinct during the Pliocene.
The end Pliocene mass extinction was marine in nature.
Fossils are known from the late Pliocene onwards.
Also in the Pliocene sediments are confirmed several layers of coal appearance.
First origins goes up to the Pliocene epoch.
The middle to end of the Pliocene was a time of extreme environmental change.
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There is an unconformity at the Pliocene base.
Later in the Pliocene till now contraction has taken place again.
It is thought to have been from the late Pliocene period.
Pliocene and Quaternary strata are most visible within the central block.
It is a cinder cone that formed in the Pliocene period.
The adductor scar area in most Pliocene specimens retains a purplish red colour.
Inhabited this area during the late Pliocene.
It died out at the beginning of Pliocene without leaving any descendants.
The origin of glyptosternoid fishes could be in the later Pliocene.
The bones we saw were from a small Pliocene species of baleen whale.
Transfer functions have also been attempted during the Pliocene.
They might have been dropped in the Pliocene gravels during fairly recent times.
It is identifiable in fossil records at least since the early Pliocene.
The volcanic complex is of Pliocene to Pleistocene age and developed over several different stages.
Were only a type of Pliocene ape.
By the time the Pliocene ended more modern carnivores like wolves and cats appeared.
Constraints on global mean sea level during Pliocene warmth.
Thylacoleo hilli lived during the Pliocene and was half the size of Thylacoleo crassidentatus.
It was created during the rise in sea level during the Pliocene.
The bones bearing the marks were from an extinct Pliocene whale of the genus Balaenotus.
Some coastal areas have been uplifted hundreds of meters in the Pliocene.
During the Pliocene the rivers leveled the tectonic upwelling and filled the valleys.
The group is intruded by porphyritic stocks and sills of Pliocene age.
Fossils have been found in Pliocene strata of Okinawa.
Major transgression caused the depositional process to be interrupted in the early Pliocene.
Elsewhere it is obscured by Pliocene and Pleistocene volcanic material.
Struthio wimani is an extinct species of ratite bird from the Pliocene of China.
It was active in the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene times.
These genera persisted until their extinction during the early Pliocene.
It dates from the Pliocene epoch.
The age of sequence is specified by the Globorotalia crassaformis that gives middle Pliocene age.
Fat thermometers for Pliocene temperature.
Panthera blytheae is an extinct feline of the late Miocene and early Pliocene epochs.
There are also Pliocene deposits.
The professor believed the tracks were made during the Pliocene period.
