Pliocene - Wikipedia
The Pliocene is bookended by two significant events in the evolution of human ancestors. The first is the appearance of the hominin Australopithecus anamensis in the early Pliocene, around 4.2 million years ago.
Pliocene Epoch | Climate, Geology & Geochronology | Britannica
It is likely that during the Early Pliocene a remarkably homogeneous fauna existed from Spain and Africa to China. Mastodons (elephant-like animals) underwent a great evolutionary diversification during the Pliocene, and many variant forms developed, adapted to …
Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth | Nature
2013年4月3日 · Here we synthesize the available geochemical proxy records of sea surface temperature and show that, compared with that of today, the early Pliocene climate had substantially lower meridional and...
The Pliocene Epoch - University of California Museum of …
Grazing mammals, such as the perissodactyls and artiodactyls diversified in the Miocene and Pliocene as grasslands and savanna spread across most continents. The Pliocene, 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago,* was a time of global cooling after the warmer Miocene.
Prehistoric Life During the Pliocene Epoch - ThoughtCo
2019年8月8日 · The Pliocene was the second epoch of the Neogene Period (23-2.6 million years ago), the first being the Miocene (23-5 million years ago); all of these periods and epochs were themselves part of the Cenozoic Era (65 million years ago to the present).
Early Pliocene Epoch | geochronology | Britannica
Neogene Period, the second of three divisions of the Cenozoic Era. The Neogene Period encompasses the interval between 23 million and 2.6 million years ago and includes the Miocene (23 million to 5.3 million years ago) and the Pliocene (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) epochs.
Tropical cyclones and permanent El Niño in the early Pliocene …
2010年2月25日 · The early Pliocene (5 to 3 million years ago) is the period in the geological past believed to be the closest analogue to contemporary global warming.
Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley
2009年3月27日 · The early Pliocene [∼5 to 3 million years ago (Ma)] is often considered the closest analog to the effects of contemporary global warming on Earth's climate.
Early Pliocene climatic optimum, cooling and early glaciation …
2019年9月1日 · In this study, multiproxy analyses of continuous core sampling from La Matilla (SW Spain) shows detailed and continuous record of pollen, sand content and abundance of benthic foraminifer Bolivina spathulata to describe paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate trends during the early Pliocene.
Pleistocene events and environments - Encyclopedia Britannica
The earliest observations and interpretations of more extensive Pleistocene glaciation were made on such deposits and landforms in the Alps during the early part of the 19th century. The environment around the ice sheets was markedly different from that of today in these formerly glaciated areas.