pliocene epoch in a sentence

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1. It has been two weeks, and America has not yet bombed Afghanistan back into the Pliocene epoch, the next rung of primitivism below the Stone Age.
2. During the Cenozoic era, specifically about 25 million years ago during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, the continental climate became favorable to the evolution of grasslands.
3. The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regional boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch.
4. These species include " Acinonyx pardinensis " ( Pliocene epoch ), notably larger than the modern cheetah, and " A . intermedius " ( mid-Pleistocene period ).
5. "' Eogruidae "'( also spelled "'Eogruiidae "'in some publications ) is a family of large, flightless birds that occurred across Eurasia from the Eocene to Pliocene epochs.
6. Pipe Creek Sinkhole, uncovered in 1996 at the Pipe Creek Junior limestone quarry near Swayzee, has been the site of important paleontological discoveries dating from the Pliocene epoch.
7. The "'Pico Formation "'is a Pliocene epoch stratigraphic unit and geologic formation in the greater Los Angeles Basin and Santa Monica Mountains, in Los Angeles County of Southern California.
8. The fossil shows " L . scagliai " was a medium-sized phorusrhacid around four feet tall and lived in Argentina approximately 3.5 million years ago during the Pliocene Epoch.
9. The mountains formed about three million years ago in the late Pliocene epoch and are the result of an uplifted block of crystalline rocks including gneiss, amphibolite, granite, and quartzite.
10. They lived from the Pliocene epoch ( from around 5 million years ago ) into the Holocene at about 4, 500 years ago in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.