miocene in English

adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting the fourth epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Oligocene and Pliocene epochs.
In Japan, decapods associated with coral reef deposits were described in Miocene and Pliocene and Pleistocene rocks.

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1. 9 Those correspond to Quaternary , Pliocene , Upper Miocene, Lower Miocene and Eocene respectively.

2. East Asian subtropical evergreen Broadleaved forests rose in the early Miocene and further diversified in the late Miocene.

3. Cardiid bivalves in the late Miocene Pannonian Lake Miiller, P

4. "L." elegans (Late Oligocene?/Early Miocene of St-Gérand-le-Puy, France) and "L." totanoides (Late Oligocene?/Early Miocene of SE France) are now in Laricola, while "L." dolnicensis (Early Miocene of Czech Republic) was actually a pratincole; it is now placed in Mioglareola.

5. The known prehistoric corvid genera appear to be mainly of the New World and Old World jay and Holarctic magpie lineages: Miocorvus (Middle Miocene of Sansan, France) Miopica (Middle Miocene of SW Ukraine) Miocitta (Pawnee Creek Late Miocene of Logan County, US) Corvidae gen. et sp. indet.

6. II — autochthonous Miocene system in the Carpathian Foredeep below the Skole Nappe;

7. Systematic and Paleobiogeographic Studies on the Japanese Miocene Argonautid Nautilus izumoensis, 1986

8. ARCHEROPS, A NEW Annectent HIPPOSIDERID GENUS (MAMMALIA: MICROCHIROPTERA) FROM THE AUSTRALIAN MIOCENE S

9. The rhinoceros-sized Promegatherium of the Miocene is suggested as the ancestor of Megatherium.

10. Megaderma lugdunensis: Discovered in France and the Czech Republic; dated from the mid-Miocene.

11. MPEF-PV-2523 (Puerto Madryn Late Miocene of Estancia La Pastosa, Argentina) "Aquila" danana (Snake Creek Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Loup Fork, US) – formerly also Geranoaetus or Buteo Accipitridae gen. et sp. indet.

12. Continuous record of the evolution of lacustrine Cardiid bivalves in the late Miocene Pannonian Lake

13. An upper Miocene unconformable surface coincides with accretion and uplift of the Cascadia Accretionary Complex.

14. The retreat of the alluvial fans also continued during the Middle Miocene (Langhian and Serravallian).

15. Bream Head features a prominent bluff 490 metres in height, the remains of a Miocene andesitic volcano.

16. Archerops, a new Annectent hipposiderid genus (Mammalia: Microchiroptera) from the Australian Miocene - Volume 77 Issue 6

17. The late Oligocene-Miocene redbed unit resulted from continued terrestrial progradation and is characterised by alluvial deposits formed by small, southwards-flowing streams of high sinuosity, ultimately succeeded by carbonate and evaporitic deposits marking the early Miocene marine transgression.

18. 23 The thickening of the crust beneath the Cordillera Blanca was by magmatic accretion since the Miocene.

19. Apart from the indeterminable MACN-SC-1411 (Pinturas Early/Middle Miocene of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina), an extinct lineage of perching birds has been described from the Late Miocene of California, United States: the Palaeoscinidae with the single genus Paleoscinis.

20. Allier, France; Lower Miocene, MN 2a, ±23 Ma): first evidence of fossil life-history strategies in Castorid rodents

21. 4 North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon.

22. First Castorid (mammalia, rodentia) from the middle miocene of southeast Asia. Suraprasit K(1), Chaimanee Y, Martin T, Jaeger JJ.

23. "Late Miocene endemic Bovids in the Tyrrhenian palaeobioprovince: from Africa or Europe?" The Geology of East Libya

24. Systematic and Paleobiogeographic Studies on the Japanese Miocene Argonautid Nautilus izumoensis, 1986, Science Reports, 7 : 15-42, 8 plates

25. Aversus Octomylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae , living during the Late Miocene ( Huayquerian )

26. The earliest known fossils of the great white shark are about 16 million years old, during the mid-Miocene epoch.

27. Early Castorids are predominantly a North American group, but by the Miocene, aquatic species that resembled modern beavers showed up in Eurasia

28. The Miocene volcanic suite of Sierra de Gata (Betic Cordillera) is composed of dacites, rhyodacites and rhyolites, besides basaltic andesites and andesites.

29. Garnets from Miocene di-normative, medium-K andesites as well as from a Mesozoic fine-grained albite granite have been petrologically investigated.

30. It has been known that the late middle Miocene in the San'in to Hokuriku districts may yield Argonautids and nautilids (e.g

31. Uplift of the coastal mountains caused the longitudinal depression to infil with sediment until aggradation virtually ceased in the Middle Miocene.

32. In amphibian: Annotated classification Clade Batrachia †Family Albanerpetodonidae (albanerpetodontids)Middle Jurassic to Lower Miocene. A peg and socket syphyseal articulation of the mandible

33. Traditionally, Analogising comparative anatomical approaches, working on features of individual bony elements, have led to the Miocene hominoids Proconsul heseloni and P

34. During the next major phase of activity, 30 enormous Oligocene-Miocene sarsen stones (shown grey on the plan) were brought to the site.

35. Cursoriality evolved in the Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla and Carnivora coincident with global cooling and the replacement of forests with open landscapes in the Oligocene and Miocene

36. Together with other gastropod taxa from the same deposits, Architectonicidae provide evidence for tropical to subtropical water temperatures in central Chile during the early Miocene

37. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of early Miocene through early Pleistocene Benthonic and planktonic Foraminifera, San Joaquin Hills-Newport Bay-Dana Point area, Orange County, California

38. The Castorid Steneofiber from NW Germany and its implications for the taxonomy of Miocene beavers THOMAS MÖRS and CLARA STEFEN Mörs, T

39. Korth & Natalia Rybczynski (2003) A new, unusual Castorid (Rodentia) from the earliest Miocene of Nebraska, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23:3, 667-675, DOI

40. The region is also the location of "Nullarbor limestone" and it has a reputation as a significant karst region with Oligocene and Miocene cave formations.

41. Benthonic foraminifera in the Upper Miocene Cruse Formation at Quinam Bay, Trinidad, western tropical Atlantic Ocean, and their palaeoenvironmental significance - Volume 151 Issue 3 - B

42. Argonautids are at present unknown below the middle Miocene, the oldest being Kapal batatrus Martin, 1929, from Palembang, Sumatra, and Argonauta [oanneus Hilber, 1915, from Steiermark, Austria

43. Cupules and fruits from the Early to Middle Miocene of Yunnan, southwestern China, are assigned to the genus Lithocarpus (Fagaceae) based on morphological and anatomical characters

44. The depression is filled mainly with Miocene sediments, made up of red clays and sludges with arkosic sandstone and conglomerates of Quaternary alluvial and fluvial origin.

45. Towards the south, Neogene planation has eroded the Paleogene pediplain, although major pediplanation and aggradation had everywhere ceased by the Upper Miocene when canyon formation commenced.

46. Faunistic elements of these affinities are recognizeable since at least Lower Miocene. A number of selected ichthyological data, recent and fossil, are presented on biogeographic maps.

47. Otodus Angustidens is a species of prehistoric megatoothed sharks in the genus Otodus, which lived during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs about 33 to 22 million years ago

48. During the Miocene, micro-Cursoriality was pre-adaptive to open, arid habitats, and became more derived in the newly evolved Elephantulus and Macroscelides elephant-shrews with trail

49. "Totanus" teruelensis (Late Miocene of Los Mansuetos (Spain) is sometimes considered a scolopacid – maybe a shank – but may well be a larid; little is known of it.

50. Costatum (Linnaeus) display a number of shell characters not found in other marine representatives of the Cardiidae (see below).On the other hand, the Miocene fresh- or brackish water