Category:Miocene animals - Wikipedia
Category:Miocene animals. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Miocene Animalia. Prehistoric animals that lived during the Miocene epoch, of the Neogene Period during the Cenozoic Era. See also the preceding Category:Oligocene animals and the succeeding Category:Pliocene animals.
Miocene Epoch | Plants, Animals, & Fossils | Britannica
2024年10月25日 · Miocene Epoch, earliest major worldwide division of the Neogene Period (23 million to 2.6 million years ago) that extended from 23 million to 5.3 million years ago, a time when land-dwelling mammals were essentially modern. Fully half of the mammalian families known today are present in the Miocene record.
Category:Miocene mammals - Wikipedia
This category is for mammals that lived during the Miocene epoch of the Neogene Period.
Miocene - Wikipedia
In the seas of the Miocene, kelp forests made their first appearance and soon became one of Earth's most productive ecosystems. [14] The plants and animals of the Miocene were recognizably modern. Mammals and birds were well established. Whales, pinnipeds, and …
Primate - Evolution, Social Behavior, Adaptations | Britannica
2024年10月4日 · The Miocene Epoch (23 million to 5.3 million years ago) is probably the most fruitful for paleoprimatology. During this time, dramatic changes in geomorphology, climate, and vegetation took place. The Miocene was a period of volcanism and mountain building, during which the topography of the modern world was becoming established.
The Miocene Epoch - University of California Museum of …
The Miocene Epoch, 23.03 to 5.3 million years ago,* was a time of warmer global climates than those in the preceeding Oligocene or the following Pliocene and it's notable in that two major ecosystems made their first appearances: kelp forests and grasslands.
Miocene Epoch summary | Britannica
Miocene Epoch, Major division of the Neogene Period, from 23 million to 5.3 million years ago. The extensive fossil record of terrestrial life during the Miocene provides a fairly complete picture of the development of vertebrates, especially mammals.
A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes …
2019年11月6日 · Since the 1970s, many fossil apes from the middle to late Miocene epoch (13–5.3 million years ago (Ma)) from Europe have been discovered and described, along with smaller samples from the same ...
Miocene | Perissodactyl - American Museum of Natural History
In addition to horses, the Miocene mammal faunas of North American were dominated by rhinos, such as Teleoceras, a large variety of camels, extinct relatives of elephants called gomphotheres, “bone-crushing” borophagine dogs, and cat-like saber-toothed predators known as nimravids.
Palaeos Cenozoic: Miocene: The Miocene Epoch
Mammal diversity reached its peak during the Miocene. Many were hoofed grazers or browsers. The epoch was marked by further evolution of horses, which became plains type animals as large as ponies, the chalicotheres, camels, rhinoceroses and anthropoid apes, including the Dryopithecus which inhabited Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. Also this ...