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Pliocene epoch   /plˈaɪəsˌin ˈɛpək/   Listen
Pliocene epoch

noun
1.
From 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals.  Synonym: Pliocene.





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"Pliocene epoch" Quotes from Famous Books



... mollusca not yet known as living, as well as extinct varieties of others, entitling us to class them as Newer Pliocene, although belonging to the close of that period and chronologically on the verge of the later or Post-pliocene epoch. ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


Words linked to "Pliocene epoch" :   epoch, Tertiary period, tertiary


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