miocene period in English

geological period during which the world's largest mountain ranges formed (approximately 23 million to 5 million years ago)

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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 )