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The Pliocene epoch (spelled Pleiocene in older texts) is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 2.588 million years before present. The Pliocene is the second and ...
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The Pliocene Epoch of the Neogene Period: 5.33 to 1.81 million years ago ... The Pliocene Epoch - good basic intro ... The Pliocene epoch - from Earth history resources...
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Plant life's pattern remained the same as every epoch's throughout the Tertiary. The cooler the climate, the more grass there was. And the Pliocene was certainly cool...
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The name Pliocene means "more recent", and this was the most recent epoch of Tertiary period, lasting from about 5 to 2 million years ago. Compared to previous epochs this was a relatively brief period, "only" 3 million years.
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Though a relatively short epoch, tremendous events occurred during the Pliocene (Plio - more; cene - recent), such as the development of ice caps, the drying of the Mediterranean, and the joining of the Americas. ... The Pliocene Epoch 5.3 to 1.75 million years ago...
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A geologic timeline. ... The flora and fauna in the regions not covered by ice are essentially the same as those of the earlier Pliocene Epoch. Mammalian evolution includes the development of large forms: woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, musk ox, moose, reindeer, elephant, mastodon, bison, and ground sloth.
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Pliocene epoch (plī'usēn) [key], fifth epoch of the Cenozoic era of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, table), from 5.1 to 2 million years ago. By the beginning of the Pliocene, the outlines of North America were almost the same as in recent time.
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Pliocene Epoch, the geologic epoch that began about 6,000,000 years ago and lasted about 4,000,000 years. It is a subdivision of the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era. Great uplifting occurred in the mountains of the northwestern United States during the Pliocene Epoch.
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