Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age., The Pliocene period or deposits.
Every epoch apart from the Pleistocene and Holocene.
They existed in North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe during the Pliocene and Pleistocene ages.
The Pliocene epoch ended around 2.6 million years ago with the transition into the Pleistocene epoch due to the onset of significant global cooling and the development of vast ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. This period marked the beginning of the Ice Age.
This is the Cenozoic era, near the boundary of Quaternary and Neogene periods, and therefore near the boundary of the Pleistocene and Pliocene epochs. Please see the link.
Homo erectus existed from the end of the Pliocene to the later Pleistocene epoch approximately 1.8 to 1.3 million years ago although the date is only an approximation.
We don't know yet; they haven't happened for us to name them.
Lauck W. Ward has written: 'Biostratigraphic analysis of the Chowan River Formation (Upper Pliocene) and adjoining units, the Moore House Member of the Yorktown Formation (Upper Pliocene) and the James City Formation (Lower Pleistocene)' -- subject(s): Fossil Animals, Fossil Mollusks, Paleontology
The Pleistocene is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's recent period of repeated glaciations.Charles Lyell introduced this term in 1839 to describe strata in Sicily that had at least 70% of their molluscan fauna still living today. This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer. He constructed the name "Pleistocene" ("Most New" or "Newest") from the Greek.This contrasting with the immediately preceding Pleiocene ("More New" or "Newer", from "more", and kainós; usual spelling: Pliocene), and the immediately subsequent Holocene ("wholly new" or "entirely new", from ὅλος, hólos, "whole", and kainós) epoch, which extends to the present time.The Pleistocene is the first epoch of the Quaternary Period or sixth epoch. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period. It also corresponds with the end of the Paleolithic age used in Archaeology. In the ICS timescale, the Pleistocene is divided into four stages or ages, the Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian and Tarantian. All of these stages were defined in southern Europe. In addition to this international subdivision, various regional subdivisions are often used.Before a change finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the time boundary between the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being at 1.806 million years before the present, as opposed to the currently accepted 2.588 million years BP: publications from the preceding years may use either definition of the period.
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Yes, the Neogene is a geologic period that precedes the Quaternary period in the geologic time scale. The Quaternary period includes the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, while the Neogene includes the Miocene and Pliocene epochs.
No, Mastodons were alive from the late Miocene/early Pliocene until around the end of the Pleistocene, 10,500 years ago give or take. There is nearly 60 million years of time between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the rise of the Mastodon.
One of the major geologic events during the Pliocene Epoch was the joining of the North American and South American tectonic plates. This joining formed the Isthmus of Panama separating the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This affected both land animals and marine life.