pliocene in English

adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting the last epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Miocene and Pleistocene epochs.
The sediments recovered are of Early Pleistocene to Late Pliocene age.

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1. 3 Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size.

2. Isn't the mastodon from the Pliocene Epoch?

3. 2 Isn't the mastodon from the Pliocene Epoch?

4. Megaderma janossyi: Discovered in Hungary; dated from the early Pliocene.

5. The first recognizable hominins, the australopithecines, appeared in the Pliocene.

6. 1 The Pliocene Epoch or its system of deposits.

7. The Pliocene lasted from 5.333 to 2.58 million years ago.

8. Megaderma mediterraneum: Discovered in France; dated from the late Pliocene.

9. 18 The first recognisable ancestors of modern humans evolved during the Pliocene epoch.

10. Pliocene marine rocks are well exposed in the Mediterranean, India, and China.

11. 15 Their tectonic framework was basically underlain in early Pleistocene or late Pliocene.

12. 17 Molecular phylogenetic studies indicated that genera of Phasianidae originated mainly in Pliocene.

13. Fossil shells from the Pliocene have been found in Italy and Southern Spain.

14. 9 Those correspond to Quaternary , Pliocene , Upper Miocene, Lower Miocene and Eocene respectively.

15. Tits have settled North America twice, probably at some time during the Early-Mid Pliocene.

16. 6 Fault depression took place in Pliocene and the Qinghai Lake formed in Middle Pleistocene.

17. Mangere and nearby Tapuaenuku (Little Mangere) are the eroded remains of an ancient volcano of Pliocene age.

18. 11 The Guiwu Formation contains the upper part of the former Xiacaowan be of Pliocene age.

19. Pliocene to recent uplift and shortening of the Pliocene fluvial gravel (“Sundgauschotter”), which accumulated on a nearly plain surface, and the progressive deflection and capture of rivers resulted from reactivation of pre-existing Paleogene faults.

20. 21 There were mainly neritic shelf and bathyal filling sedimentation in the Pliocene and Quaternary.

21. Abstract: We present the first record of the Cardiid genus Monodacna from the Pliocene of Anatolia, Turkey

22. The geomorphologic characteristics are clay and sand soils, sometimes alternating, resulting from the lower Pliocene and present Quaternary periods

23. Stigmellites zelkovae Straus, 1977 was described from a fossil mine in a Zelkova species dated to the Pliocene.

24. 10 Its geological time, ignored for the early Pliocene , about ape - man Lam and Shaanxi considerable time.

25. 7 Fuzhou,(www.Sentencedict.com) a venture capital company Pliocene - based venture capital group for the main business is more likely.

26. Abstract: We present the first record of the Cardiid genus Monodacna from the Pliocene of Anatolia, Turkey.Monodacna imrei sp

27. The geomorphologic characteristics are clay and sand soils, sometimes alternating, resulting from the lower Pliocene and present Quaternary periods.

28. 4 North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon.

29. 5 An angular unconformity within the Pliocene stratum was found during field exploration in northwestern part of the Gonghe Basin.

30. 13 Judging from the stratigraphical sequence and the characteristics of this flora, the geological age of the said coal series is late Pliocene.

31. "Dental microwear texture analysis of Varswater Bovids and early Pliocene paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa."

32. Creodont (plural Creodonts) A member of the extinct Creodonta order of mammals that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch

33. 12 A large extinct European deer of the genus Megaceros of the Pliocene Epoch and the Pleistocene Epoch, having very large palmate antlers.

34. 14 The tiger then began to evolve into a unique species toward the end of the Pliocene epoch, about 2 million years ago.

35. During the emergence of the area at the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary, low angle thrusting, dissolution cleavage and open NNW to NNE trending folds, were developed.

36. 20 The cuticular microstructures of four angiosperm fossil plants from the Pliocene Mangbang Formation and the Yangyi Formation in Baoshan, Yunnan Province were studied in this paper.

37. 16 Wei, S. - K. and Lin, C. - W. (19 A preliminary evaluation of the potential for the fracture development on the Mio- Pliocene strata in the Miaoli area.

38. This is the second report of Argonautid fossils from Pliocene formations in Japan and marks the earliest occurrence of living species of Argonautidae in the North Pacific region.

39. Native metatherian predators (including the saber-toothed thylacosmilids) had gone extinct by the Pliocene, and were replaced by North American carnivores such as canids, bears, and large cats.

40. 8 During the Pliocene to early Pleistocene strong NW-SE crustal extension resulted in disintegration of the planation geomorphology and formation of a graben basin in the area.

41. A previous study on the morphological adaptations of shells of Cardiid bivalves (Savazzi, 1985) showed that the genus Cardium Linnaeus, 1758 and, in particular, the Pliocene to Recent C

42. Within the Afar Depression the pre-Tertiary formations are covered by limnic-fluviatile — in upper portions marine — sediments, Miocene and Pliocene in age, thickening towards the centre of the Depression.

43. The Pliocene deposits contain a mollusc fauna more Arctic than that which exists at the present time, indicating that the connection between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans was probably broader than it is now.

44. The mineral chemistry of several Pliocene alkali basaltic rocks from Burgenland and Styria (Eastern Austria) have been investigated in order to determine the evolution path of the basalt magmas prior to eruption.

45. The post-Cambrian marine sedimentation is made up of alternate layers of limestone, dolomites, schists and clays, with the successive series of Pliocene sedimentations represented by basal conglomerates, marls, clays and finally loose sandstones and sand.

46. Constitutively, these deposits are accumulations of gravel and sand covered by a layer of Quaternary clayish loess sediments, which lies on top of marine sediments (marl, clay, sand) of the Pliocene era.

47. 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.

48. 19 The JOIDES Resolution expedition to Wilkes Land is investigating some of these, such as the Pliocene, about 3 million years ago, when the world was on average 3 C (4 F) warmer than today.

49. The post-Cambrian marine sedimentation is made up of alternate layers of limestone, dolomites, schists and clays, with the successive series of Pliocene sedimentations represented by basal conglomerates, marls, clays and finally loose sandstones and sand

50. Anhinga hadarensis Brodkorb & Mourer-Chauviré, 1982 (Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene of E Africa) Anhinga beckeri Emslie, 1998 (Early – Late Pleistocene of SE US) Protoplotus, a small Paleogene phalacrocoraciform from Sumatra, was in old times considered a primitive darter.