pliocene epoch in a sentence
Examples
- Sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams and ignimbrite deposits that erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to years ago, during the late Miocene to Pliocene epochs, underlie the Cappadocia region.
- The appearance of mountains in the western United States during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, a period of some 25 million years, created a continental climate favorable to the evolution of grasslands.
- "' 3, 200, 000 BC, Late Pliocene ( Ethiopia ) "' " This episode follows the hardships of an " Australopithecus " group and a young called Blue in the late Pliocene epoch.
- Native to North America, they are said to have lived on the North American continent from almost 4 million years ago, in the Pliocene Epoch, until their eventual disappearance about 10, 000 years ago.
- The genus most likely evolved in Asia during the late Pliocene epoch; the oldest fossil belonging to the genus is of the species " L . palaeindica ", and dates from the late Pliocene.
- During the Pliocene epoch ( 5, 33 to 2, 58 million years ago ) the former Paratethys was divided in a couple of inland seas that were at times completely separated from each other.
- The discovery of a dromomerycine in South America is exceptional; until 2014 there were only sporadic findings of placental mammals other than xenarthrans or meridiungulates in South America in layers earlier than the Pliocene epoch.
- In the late Pliocene Epoch, about 2.15 million years ago, the Eltanin asteroid ( about 1-4 km in diameter ) impacted at the edge of the Bellingshausen sea ( at the deep-ocean basin in the world.
- According to the Bavarian State Geology Office, during the Cenozoic, from Paleocene to the Pliocene epochs, a number of active volcanoes produced liquid magma in Northern Bavaria, mostly due to the continental collision of Europe and Africa.
- The " Cynodesmus " is a good example of convergent evolution because of other species such as the " Borophagus ", the largest and most dominant canids of the Pliocene epoch, both of which evolved from it.