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similar to the later Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean ensued in the Central Paratethys, cut off from sources of freshwater input by its separation from the Eastern Paratethys. From 13.36 to 12.65 Ma, the Central Paratethys was characterised by open marine conditions, before the reopening of the Bârlad Strait resulted in a shift to brackish-marine conditions in the Central Paratethys, causing the Badenian-Sarmatian Extinction Event. As a result of the Bârlad Strait's reopening, the lake levels of the Eastern Paratethys dropped as it once again became a sea.
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associated with a significant drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Both continental and oceanic thermal gradients in mid-latitudes during the Early Miocene were very similar to those in the present. Global cooling caused the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) to begin to take on its modern form during the Early Miocene. From 22.1 to 19.7 Ma, the Xining Basin experienced relative warmth and humidity amidst a broader aridification trend.
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water in the western Pacific that then spread eastward and reduced upwelling in the eastern Pacific, may also have been responsible. A Middle Miocene δO increase, that is, a relative increase in the heavier isotope of oxygen, has been noted in the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and the South Atlantic. Barium and uranium became enriched in seafloor sediments.
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Steinthorsdottir, M.; Coxall, H. K.; Boer, A. M. de; Huber, M.; Barbolini, N.; Bradshaw, C. D.; Burls, N. J.; Feakins, S. J.; Gasson, E.; Henderiks, J.; Holbourn, A. E.; Kiel, S.; Kohn, M. J.; Knorr, G.; Kürschner, W. M.; Lear, C. H.; Liebrand, D.; Lunt, D. J.; Mörs, T.; Pearson, P. N.; Pound, M. J.;
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underwent a significant transgression during the early Middle Miocene. Around 13.8 Ma, during a global sea level drop, the Eastern Paratethys was cut off from the global ocean by the closure of the Bârlad Strait, effectively turning it into a saltwater lake. From 13.8 to 13.36 Ma, an evaporite period
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appear during the Miocene. By the epoch's end, all or almost all modern bird groups are believed to have been present; the few post-Miocene bird fossils which cannot be placed in the evolutionary tree with full confidence are simply too badly preserved, rather than too equivocal in character. Marine
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The Miocene began with the Early Miocene Cool Event (Mi-1) around 23 million years ago, which marked the start of the Early Miocene Cool Interval (EMCI). This cool event occurred immediately after the Oligocene-Miocene Transition (OMT) during a major expansion of Antarctica's ice sheets, but was not
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dropped substantially by approximately 7-9 °C. 41 kyr obliquity cycles became the dominant orbital climatic control 7.7 Ma and this dominance strengthened 6.4 Ma. Benthic δO values show significant glaciation occurred from 6.26 to 5.50 Ma, during which glacial-interglacial cycles were governed
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Far northern Australia was monsoonal during the Miocene. Although northern Australia is often believed to have been much wetter during the Miocene, this interpretation may be an artefact of preservation bias of riparian and lacustrine plants; this finding has itself been challenged by other papers.
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Stage of the mid-Miocene. A major and permanent cooling step occurred between 14.8 and 14.1 Ma, associated with increased production of cold Antarctic deep waters and a major expansion of the East Antarctic ice sheet. The closure of the Indonesian Throughflow, which caused an accumulation of warm
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suggests additional, currently unknown, factors also worked to create the warm conditions of the MMCO. The MMCO saw the expansion of the tropical climatic zone to much larger than its current size. The July ITCZ, the zone of maximal monsoonal rainfall, moved to the north, increasing precipitation
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region. The first step of this closure occurred 20 Ma, reducing water mass exchange by 90%, while the second step occurred around 13.8 Ma, coincident with a major expansion of Antarctic glaciers. This severed the connection between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and formed the present
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Folguera, Andrés; Encinas, Alfonso; Echaurren, Andrés; Gianni, Guido; Orts, Darío; Valencia, Víctor; Carrasco, Gabriel (2018). "Constraints on the Neogene growth of the central Patagonian Andes at thelatitude of the Chile triple junction (45–47°S) using U/Pb geochronology insynorogenic strata".
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The EMCI ended 18 million years ago, giving way to the Middle Miocene Warm Interval (MMWI), the warmest part of which was the MMCO that began 16 million years ago. As the world transitioned into the MMCO, carbon dioxide concentrations varied between 300 and 500 ppm. Global annual mean surface
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drop but to the increasing seasonality and aridity, coupled with a monsoon climate, which made wildfires highly prevalent compared to before. The Late Miocene expansion of grasslands had cascading effects on the global carbon cycle, evidenced by the imprint it left in carbon isotope records.
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The expansion of grasslands in North America also led to an explosive radiation among snakes. Previously, snakes were a minor component of the North American fauna, but during the Miocene, the number of species and their prevalence increased dramatically with the first appearances of
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The MMWI ended about 11 Ma, when the Late Miocene Cool Interval (LMCI) started. A major but transient warming occurred around 10.8-10.7 Ma. During the Late Miocene, the Earth's climate began to display a high degree of similarity to that of the present day. The 173 kyr
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Ao, Hong; Rohling, Eelco J.; Zhang, Ran; Roberts, Andrew P.; Holbourn, Ann E.; Ladant, Jean-Baptiste; Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume; Kuhnt, Wolfgang; Zhang, Peng; Wu, Feng; Dekkers, Mark J.; Liu, Qingsong; Liu, Zhonghui; Xu, Yong; Poulsen, Christopher J. (26 November 2021).
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Groeneveld, Jeroen; Henderiks, Jorijntje; Renema, Willem; McHugh, Cecilia M.; De Vleeschouwer, David; Christensen, Beth A.; Fulthorpe, Craig S.; Reuning, Lars; Gallager, Stephen J.; Bogus, Kara; Auer, Gerald; Ishiwa, Takeshige; Expedition 356 Scientists (10 May 2017).
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is thought to have occurred at this time. The evolution of bipedalism in apes at the end of the Miocene instigated an increased rate of faunal turnover in Africa. In contrast, European apes met their end at the end of the Miocene due to increased habitat uniformity.
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Encinas, Alfonso; Pérez, Felipe; Nielsen, Sven; Finger, Kenneth L.; Valencia, Victor; Duhart, Paul (2014). "Geochronologic and paleontologic evidence for a Pacific–Atlantic connection during the late Oligocene–early Miocene in the Patagonian Andes (43–44°S)".
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Wang, Menglin; Hellemans, Simon; Buček, Aleš; Kanao, Taisuke; Arora, Jigyasa; Clitheroe, Crystal; Rafanomezantsoa, Jean‐Jacques; Fisher, Brian L.; Scheffrahn, Rudolf; Sillam‐Dussès, David; Roisin, Yves; Šobotník, Jan; Bourguignon, Thomas (21 April 2023).
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occurred approximately 6 Ma, causing continental carbon reservoirs to no longer expand during cold spells, as they had done during cold periods in the Oligocene and most of the Miocene. At the end of the Miocene, global temperatures rose again as the
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over southern China whilst simultaneously decreasing it over Indochina during the EASM. Western Australia was at this time characterised by exceptional aridity. In Antarctica, average summer temperatures on land reached 10 °C. In the oceans, the
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Steininger, Fritz F.; M. P. Aubry; W. A. Berggren; M. Biolzi; A. M. Borsetti; Julie E. Cartlidge; F. Cati; R. Corfield; R. Gelati; S. Iaccarino; C. Napoleone; F. Ottner; F. Rögl; R. Roetzel; S. Spezzaferri; F. Tateo; G. Villa; D. Zevenboom (1997).
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opened during the Miocene and acted as the only throughflow for Atlantic Water into the Arctic Ocean until the Quaternary period. Due to regional uplift of the continental shelf, this water could not move through the Barents Seaway in the Miocene.
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Attorre, F.; Francesconi, F.; Taleb, N.; Scholte, P.; Saed, A.; Alfo, M.; Bruno, F. (2007). "Will dragonblood survive the next period of climate change? Current and future potential distribution of Dracaena cinnabari (Socotra, Yemen)".
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It is thought that the Oligocene–Miocene transgression in Patagonia could have temporarily linked the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as inferred from the findings of marine invertebrate fossils of both Atlantic and Pacific affinity in
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Guillaume, Benjamin; Gautheron, Cécile; Simon-Labric, Thibaud; Martinod, Joseph; Roddaz, Martin; Douville, Eric (2013). "Dynamic topography control on Patagonian relief evolution as inferred from low temperature thermochronology".
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may have begun to have large glaciers as early as 8 to 7 Ma, although the climate for the most part remained warm enough to support forests there well into the Pliocene. Zhejiang, China was noticeably more humid than today. In the
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During the Early Miocene, Afro-Arabia collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans, and allowing a faunal interchange to occur between Eurasia and Africa, including the dispersal of
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Carolin, Nora; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India".
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at 15 Ma probably reflect increased ice growth in Antarctica. It can therefore be assumed that East Antarctica had some glaciers during the early to mid Miocene (23–15 Ma). Oceans cooled partly due to the formation of the
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Olivier Lambert; Giovanni Bianucci; Klaas Post; Christian de Muizon; Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi; Mario Urbina; Jelle Reumer (2010). "The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru".
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From p. 54: "The next antecedent tertiary epoch we shall name Miocene, from μειων, minor, and χαινος, recens, a minority only of fossil shells imbedded in the formations of this period, being of recent
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Krijgsman, W.; Garcés, M.; Langereis, C. G.; Daams, R.; Van Dam, J.; Van Der Meulen, A. J.; Agustí, J.; Cabrera, L. (1996). "A new chronology for the middle to late Miocene continental record in Spain".
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lived during this time, ranging throughout Africa, Asia and Europe and varying widely in size, diet, and anatomy. Due to scanty fossil evidence it is unclear which ape or apes contributed to the modern
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Nielsen, S.N. (2005). "Cenozoic Strombidae, Aporrhaidae, and Struthiolariidae (Gastropoda, Stromboidea) from Chile: their significance to biogeography of faunas and climate of the south-east Pacific".
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Guillame, Benjamin; Martinod, Joseph; Husson, Laurent; Roddaz, Martin; Riquelme, Rodrigo (2009). "Neogene uplift of central eastern Patagonia: Dynamic response to active spreading ridge subduction?".
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The global trend was towards increasing aridity caused primarily by global cooling reducing the ability of the atmosphere to absorb moisture, particularly after 7 to 8 million years ago. Uplift of
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Bouley S, Baratoux D, Baratoux L, Colas F, Dauvergne J, Losiak A, Vaubaillon J, Bourdeille C, Jullien A, Ibadinov K (2011). "Karakul: a young complex impact crater in the Pamir, Tajikistan".
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Zhisheng, An; Kutzbach, John E.; Prell, Warren L.; Porter, Stephen C. (3 May 2001). "Evolution of Asian monsoons and phased uplift of the Himalaya–Tibetan plateau since Late Miocene times".
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into Eurasia. During the late Miocene, the connections between the Atlantic and Mediterranean closed, causing the Mediterranean Sea to nearly completely evaporate, in an event called the
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became consumed by subduction the more northerly regions of the Antarctic Plate begun to subduct beneath Patagonia so that the Chile Triple Junction advanced to the north over time. The
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between 11.5 and 5 million years ago began to rediversify after previous declines in variety due to climatic changes, and thus modern cycads are not a good model for a "living fossil".
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Drury, Anna Joy; Westerhold, Thomas; Frederichs, Thomas; Tian, Jun; Wilkens, Roy; Channell, James E.T.; Evans, Helen; John, Cédric M.; Lyle, Mitch; Röhl, Ursula (1 October 2017).
5264:"Climate-model evaluation of the contribution of sea-surface temperature and carbon dioxide to the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum as a possible analogue of future climate change" 9246: 3377:
Diatom diversity was inversely correlated with carbon dioxide levels and global temperatures during the Miocene. Most modern lineages of diatoms appeared by the Late Miocene.
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Li, Qijia; Deng, Weiyudong; Wappler, Torsten; Utescher, Torsten; Maslova, Natalia; Liu, Yusheng (Christopher); Jia, Hui; Song, Chengyu; Su, Tao; Quan, Cheng (February 2022).
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Goedert, Jean; Amiot, Romain; Arnaut-Godet, Florent; Cuny, Gilles; Fourel, François; Hernandez, Jean-Alexis; Pedreira-Segade, Ulysse; Lécuyer, Christophe (1 September 2017).
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Wichura, Henry; Bousquet, Romain; Oberhänsli, Roland; Strecker, Manfred R.; Trauth, Martin H. (June 2010). "Evidence for middle Miocene uplift of the East African Plateau".
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Lasabuda, Amando P. E.; Hanssen, Alfred; Laberg, Jan Sverre; Faleide, Jan Inge; Patton, Henry; Abdelmalak, Mansour M.; Rydningen, Tom Arne; Kjølhamar, Bent (29 June 2023).
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Drake, Henrik; Roberts, Nick M. W.; Reinhardt, Manuel; Whitehouse, Martin; Ivarsson, Magnus; Karlsson, Andreas; Kooijman, Ellen; Kielmann-Schmitt, Melanie (3 June 2021).
5512:"Changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and climate from the Late Eocene to Early Miocene: palaeobotanical reconstruction based on fossil floras from Saxony, Germany" 4029:"Bayesian Divergence-Time Estimation with Genome-Wide Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Data of Sea Catfishes (Ariidae) Supports Miocene Closure of the Panamanian Isthmus" 9423:
Lawrence G. Barnes & Kiyoharu Hirota (1994). "Miocene pinnipeds of the otariid subfamily Allodesminae in the North Pacific Ocean: systematics and relationships".
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Warny, Sophie; Askin, Rosemary A.; Hannah, Michael J.; Mohr, Barbara A.R.; Raine, J. Ian; Harwood, David M.; Florindo, Fabio; the SMS Science Team (1 October 2009).
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continued. Although a long-term cooling trend was well underway, there is evidence of a warm period during the Miocene when the global climate rivalled that of the
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Kochhann, Karlos G. D.; Holbourn, Ann; Kuhnt, Wolfgang; Channell, James E. T.; Lyle, Mitch; Shackford, Julia K.; Wilkens, Roy H.; Andersen, Nils (22 August 2016).
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of the Andes represents an exception. While there are numerous registers of Oligocene–Miocene transgressions around the world it is doubtful that these correlate.
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Mejía, Luz María; Méndez-Vicente, Ana; Abrevaya, Lorena; Lawrence, Kira T.; Ladlow, Caroline; Bolton, Clara; Cacho, Isabel; Stoll, Heather (1 December 2017).
6705:"Middle to late Miocene stepwise climate cooling: Evidence from a high-resolution deep water isotope curve spanning 8 million years: MIOCENE BENTHIC ISOTOPES" 3818:"Reconstructing Terrestrial Paleoclimates: A Comparison of the Co-Existence Approach, Bayesian and Probability Reconstruction Techniques Using the UK Neogene" 9942: 3171:
in comparison to only six living genera. This diversification correlates with emergence of gigantic macro-predators such as megatoothed sharks and raptorial
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Herbert, Timothy D.; Lawrence, Kira T.; Tzanova, Alexandrina; Peterson, Laura Cleaveland; Caballero-Gill, Rocio; Kelly, Christopher S. (26 September 2016).
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of terrestrial and aquatic life forms that occurred following the Miocene Climatic Optimum (18 to 16 Ma), around 14.8 to 14.5 million years ago, during the
7958: 6913:"Monsoon-influenced variation of clay mineral compositions and detrital Nd-Sr isotopes in the western Andaman Sea (IODP Site U1447) since the late Miocene" 6276:"Eccentricity pacing of eastern equatorial Pacific carbonate dissolution cycles during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: ECCENTRICITY-PACED DISSOLUTION CYCLES" 3421:, and about 15 million years ago the ice cap in the southern hemisphere started to grow to its present form. The Greenland ice cap developed later, in the 1085:
Regionally, other systems are used, based on characteristic land mammals; some of them overlap with the preceding Oligocene and following Pliocene Epochs:
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Qin, Jie; Zhang, Rui; Kravchinsky, Vadim A.; Valet, Jean-Pierre; Sagnotti, Leonardo; Li, Jianxing; Xu, Yong; Anwar, Taslima; Yue, Leping (2 April 2022).
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Kenneth G. Miller & Richard G. Fairbanks (1983). "Evidence for Oligocene−Middle Miocene abyssal circulation changes in the western North Atlantic".
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William Whewell, D. D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: An account of his writings with selections from his literary and scientific correspondence
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Wen, Yixiong; Zhang, Laiming; Holbourn, Ann E.; Zhu, Chenguang; Huntington, Katharine W.; Jin, Tianjie; Li, Yalin; Wang, Chengshan (23 January 2013).
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Hohenegger, Johann; Roegl, Fred; Coric, Stjepan; Pervesler, Peter; Lirer, Fabrizio; Roetzel, Reinhard; Scholger, Robert; Stingl, Karl (January 2009).
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At the beginning of the Miocene, the northern margin of the Arabian plate, then part of the African landmass, collided with Eurasia; as a result, the
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of Earth's obliquity increased, which caused increased aridity in Central Asia. Around 5.5 Ma, the EAWM underwent a period of rapid intensification.
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grasses, expanded to become ecologically significant near the end of the Miocene between 6 and 7 million years ago. The expansion of grasslands and
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distantly related to modern crocodilians, from which they likely diverged over 180 million years ago, are known from the Miocene of South America.
9644:"Climate-driven compositional modifications of arc volcanoes along the East Equatorial Pacific Margin — The magmatic response to a cooling planet" 5887: 5189: 3161:
Corals suffered a significant local decline along the northeastern coast of Australia during the Tortonian, most likely due to warming seawater.
6551:"The emergence of Miocene reefs in South China Sea and its resilient adaptability under varying eustatic, climatic and oceanographic conditions" 4766:"Oligo-Miocene transgression along the Pacifie margin of South America: new paleontological and geological evidence from the Pisco basin (Peru)" 2779:
were fairly modern, although marine mammals were less numerous. Only in isolated South America and Australia did widely divergent fauna exist.
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Funder, Svend; Abrahamsen, Niels; Bennike, Ole; Feyling-Hanssen, Rolf W. (1 August 1985). "Forested Arctic: Evidence from North Greenland".
4279:"Late Miocene (10.0~6.0 Ma) Rapid Exhumation of the Chinese South Tianshan: Implications for the Timing of Aridification in the Tarim Basin" 2794:
were still diverse, only to disappear in the earliest Pliocene. During the later Miocene mammals were more modern, with easily recognizable
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Zhang, Rui; Li, Xiaojuan; Xu, Yong; Li, Jianxian; Sun, Lu; Yue, Leping; Pan, Feng; Xian, Feng; Wei, Xiaohao; Cao, Yuge (10 January 2022).
8358: 8772: 8585: 5560:"Miocene (Burdigalian) seawater and air temperatures estimated from the geochemistry of fossil remains from the Aquitaine Basin, France" 4494: 1459:. At first the Antarctic Plate subducted only in the southernmost tip of Patagonia, meaning that the Chile Triple Junction lay near the 2577: 7680:
De Vleeschouwer, David; Drury, Anna Joy; Vahlenkamp, Maximilian; Rochholz, Fiona; Liebrand, Diederik; Pälike, Heiko (6 October 2020).
6164:"Paleoclimatic evolution of the SW and NE South China Sea and its relationship with spectral reflectance data over various age scales" 2873: 1746: 9935: 9291: 3051: 2447: 1622:
was approaching its present-day size and thickness. Ocean temperatures plummeted to near-modern values during the LMC; extratropical
5664:"Evidence of late early Miocene aridification intensification in the Xining Basin caused by the northeastern Tibetan Plateau uplift" 1424:. The transgressions in the west coast of South America are thought to be caused by a regional phenomenon while the steadily rising 9826: 8498:"The Miocene mammal Necrolestes demonstrates the survival of a Mesozoic nontherian lineage into the late Cenozoic of South America" 7809:"An astronomically tuned 8.1 Ma eolian record from the Chinese Loess Plateau and its implication on the evolution of Asian monsoon" 4796: 4597:
Liu, Chang; Clift, Peter D.; Murray, Richard W.; Blusztajn, Jerzy; Ireland, Thomas; Wan, Shiming; Ding, Weiwei (20 February 2017).
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to follow their own evolutionary path during the final Messinian Stage (7.5–5.3 Ma) of the Miocene. As in the Oligocene before it,
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Greenop, Rosanna; Sodian, Sindia M.; Henehan, Michael J.; Wilson, Paul A.; Lear, Caroline H.; Foster, Gavin L. (18 January 2019).
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occurred either during the Miocene (23 Ma – 5.3 Ma) or the Pliocene (5.3 Ma – 2.6 Ma). The event formed the
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deposition indicate this cooling was driven by enhanced drawdown of carbon dioxide via silicate weathering. The MMCT caused a
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was a major source of sediment flux into the sea during the Early Miocene and was a major fluvial system as in the present.
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Mathew, Manoj; Makhankova, Adelya; Menier, David; Sautter, Benjamin; Betzler, Christian; Pierson, Bernard (28 April 2020).
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As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of
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Jiang, Shijun; Wise Jr., Sherwood W.; Wang, Yang (2007). Teagle, D.A.H.; Wilson, D.S.; Acton, G.D.; Vanko, D.A. (eds.).
4543:"Paleobathymetric reconstructions of the SW Barents Seaway and their implications for Atlantic–Arctic ocean circulation" 9798: 9137: 7205:"Estimation of low-latitude paleoclimates using fossil angiosperm leaves: examples from the Miocene Tugen Hills, Kenya" 3098:
Arthropods were abundant, including in areas such as Tibet where they have traditionally been thought to be undiverse.
8134:"The impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems" 7447:"1.2 Myr Band of Earth-Mars Obliquity Modulation on the Evolution of Cold Late Miocene to Warm Early Pliocene Climate" 2919:
were widespread in Europe, being less diverse in Southern Europe than farther north due to the aridity of the former.
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is considered a remnant of the Mio-Pliocene Laurasian subtropical forests that are now almost extinct in North Africa.
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region and a global fall in sea levels combined to cause a temporary drying up of the Mediterranean Sea (known as the
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Super, James R.; Thomas, Ellen; Pagani, Mark; Huber, Matthew; O'Brien, Charlotte; Hull, Pincelli M. (26 April 2018).
4765: 810: 853: 2407: 9762: 5608:"Global Cooling Contributed to the Establishment of a Modern-Like East Asian Monsoon Climate by the Early Miocene" 8609:
Furió, Marc; Ruiz-Sánchez, Francisco J.; Crespo, Vicente D.; Freudenthal, Matthijs; Montoya, Plinio (July 2012).
8399:"Predictable structure of Miocene insectivore (Lipotyphla) faunas in Western Europe along a latitudinal gradient" 7813: 6911:
Lee, Jongmin; Kim, Sunghan; Lee, Jae Il; Cho, Hyen Goo; Phillips, Stephen C.; Khim, Bo-Kyeun (15 December 2020).
6108:"Climate changes in the Early to Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys and the origin of its echinoderm fauna" 5203:
Methner, Katharina; Campani, Marion; Fiebig, Jens; Löffler, Niklas; Kempf, Oliver; Mulch, Andreas (14 May 2020).
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Crocodilians also showed signs of diversification during the Miocene. The largest form among them was a gigantic
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Petrick, Benjamin; Reuning, Lars; Auer, Gerald; Zhang, Yige; Pfeiffer, Miriam; Schwark, Lorenz (10 March 2023).
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Holbourn, Ann; Kuhnt, Wolfgang; Kochhann, Karlos G.D.; Andersen, Nils; Sebastian Meier, K.J. (1 February 2015).
4856: 10606: 7165:"Vein density of angiosperms as a paleoclimate proxy: a case study using fossil leaves of Zelkova and Machilus" 3371: 7594:"Late Miocene climate and time scale reconciliation: Accurate orbital calibration from a deep-sea perspective" 7149: 4599:"Geochemical evidence for initiation of the modern Mekong delta in the southwestern South China Sea after 8Ma" 724: 8650:"Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil-record quality" 3797: 3749: 3418: 839: 657: 17: 7682:"High-latitude biomes and rock weathering mediate climate–carbon cycle feedbacks on eccentricity timescales" 7333:
Tanner, Thomas; Hernández-Almeida, Iván; Drury, Anna Joy; Guitián, José; Stoll, Heather (10 December 2020).
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took shape after 8 Ma. Geochemistry of the Qiongdongnan Basin in the northern South China Sea indicates the
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Base of the Thvera magnetic event (C3n.4n), which is only 96 ka (5 precession cycles) younger than the GSSP
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beneath Patagonia inducing an uplift of ca. 1 km that reversed the Oligocene–Miocene transgression.
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The plants and animals of the Miocene were recognizably modern. Mammals and birds were well-established.
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Brown, Rachel M.; Chalk, Thomas B.; Crocker, Anya J.; Wilson, Paul A.; Foster, Gavin L. (25 July 2022).
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Jia, Yunxia; Wu, Haibin; Zhu, Shuya; Li, Qin; Zhang, Chunxia; Yu, Yanyan; Sun, Aizhi (1 November 2020).
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Van Couvering, John; Castradori, Davide; Cita, Maria; Hilgen, Frederik; Rio, Domenico (September 2000).
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diversified and expanded into areas they previously were absent from, such as Madagascar and Australia.
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Fenton, Isabel S.; Aze, Tracy; Farnsworth, Alexander; Valdes, Paul; Saupe, Erin E. (15 February 2023).
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is the only Cenozoic terrestrial fossil record of the landmass, showcasing a wide variety of not only
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clade, but molecular evidence indicates this ape lived between 18 and 13 million years ago. The first
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belong) in Europe, Asia and Africa are known from the Miocene, including the European herpetotheriid
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Liu, Chang; Clift, Peter D.; Giosan, Liviu; Miao, Yunfa; Warny, Sophie; Wan, Shiming (1 July 2019).
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Bialik, Or M.; Frank, Martin; Betzler, Christian; Zammit, Ray; Waldmann, Nicolas D. (20 June 2019).
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Stange, Madlen; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R; Salzburger, Walter; Matschiner, Michael (1 July 2018).
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The Miocene is of particular interest to geologists and palaeoclimatologists as major phases of the
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Holbourn, Ann; Kuhnt, Wolfgang; Clemens, Steven; Prell, Warren; Andersen, Nils (11 November 2013).
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Henrot, A.-J.; François, L.; Favre, E.; Butzin, M.; Ouberdous, M.; Munhoven, G. (21 October 2010).
5719: 4980: 4659: 4495:"The sensitivity of middle Miocene paleoenvironments to changing marine gateways in Central Europe" 3487: 3127: 3114: 9775: 9313:"The crocodylomorph fauna of the Cenozoic of South America and its evolutionary history: a review" 9244: 6391:"Middle Miocene climate cooling linked to intensification of eastern equatorial Pacific upwelling" 5510:
Roth-Nebelsick, A.; Utescher, T.; Mosbrugger, V.; Diester-Haass, L.; Walther, T. (20 March 2004).
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Scotese, Christopher R.; Song, Haijun; Mills, Benjamin J.W.; van der Meer, Douwe G. (April 2021).
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Chang, Jian; Glorie, Stijn; Qiu, Nansheng; Min, Kyoungwon; Xiao, Yao; Xu, Wei (28 December 2020).
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temperature during the MMCO was about 18.4 °C. MMCO warmth was driven by the activity of the
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Lazarus, David; Barron, John; Renaudie, Johan; Diver, Patrick; Türke, Andreas (22 January 2014).
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Larsen, H. C.; Saunders, A. D.; Clift, P. D.; Beget, J.; Wei, W.; Spezzaferri, S. (13 May 1994).
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Gibson, M. E.; McCoy, J.; O'Keefe, J. M. K.; Otaño, N. B. Nuñez; Warny, S.; Pound, M. J. (2022).
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Ma, Ming; Chen, Guojun; Zhang, Gongcheng; Rahman, M. Julleh Jalalur; Ma, Xiaofeng (1 May 2022).
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Errázuriz-Henao, Carlos; Gómez-Tuena, Arturo; Parolari, Mattia; Weber, Marion (November 2022).
8654: 8027: 7209: 5393:"Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years" 5263: 2277: 1764: 1518:
Climates remained moderately warm, although the slow global cooling that eventually led to the
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opened and the Mediterranean refilled at the Miocene–Pliocene boundary, in an event called the
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Rougier, Guillermo W.; Wible, John R.; Beck, Robin M. D.; Apesteguía, Sebastian (2012-12-04).
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Goto, Kosuke T.; Tejada, Maria Luisa G.; Tajika, Eiichi; Suzuki, Katsuhiko (26 January 2023).
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Armstrong McKay, David I.; Tyrrell, Toby; Wilson, Paul A.; Foster, Gavin L. (1 October 2014).
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which had been the only known surviving genus of the group since the beginning of the Eocene.
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governed by Earth's interactions with Saturn became detectable in the Late Miocene. By 12 Ma,
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toward their present positions. Of the modern geologic features, only the land bridge between
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Holbourn, A.; Kuhnt, W.; Lyle, M.; Schneider, L.; Romero, O.; Andersen, N. (1 January 2014).
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Mao, Xuegang; Retallack, Gregory (January 2019). "Late Miocene drying of central Australia".
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experienced significant uplift in the Late Miocene, blocking westerlies from coming into the
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Merceron, Gildas; Kaiser, Thomas M.; Kostopoulos, Dimitris S.; Schulz, Ellen (2 June 2010).
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Wang, Xue-Lian; Wang, Zi-Xi; Li, Rui-Yun; Deng, Peng; Ma, Li; Sun, Bai-Nian (January 2016).
5857: 4955: 4386:"The Oligo–Miocene closure of the Tethys Ocean and evolution of the proto-Mediterranean Sea" 3922: 3520: 1581:
Restoration of the volcanic eruption in Harney Basin, of the western US, represented by the
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Hodell, David A.; Curtis, Jason H.; Sierro, Francisco J.; Raymo, Maureen E. (April 2004).
7269:"Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity" 4902:
Cande, S.C.; Leslie, R.B. (1986). "Late Cenozoic Tectonics of the Southern Chile Trench".
4722:"Late Oligocene–Miocene transgressions along the equatorial and eastern margins of Brazil" 3666: 3630: 8: 10555: 9618: 9025:"Warm, not cold temperatures contributed to a Late Miocene reef decline in the Coral Sea" 8976: 6314: 6054: 6004: 5718:
Greenop, Rosanna; Foster, Gavin L.; Wilson, Paul A.; Lear, Caroline H. (11 August 2014).
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maxima. The MMCO ended around 14 million years ago, when global temperatures fell in the
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attained their greatest diversity during the Miocene, with over 20 recognized genera of
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apes of the human lineage) appeared in Africa at the very end of the Miocene, including
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Tian, Jun; Zhao, Quanhong; Wang, Pinxian; Li, Qianyu; Cheng, Xinrong (September 2008).
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Zhang, Chunxia; Xiao, Guoqiao; Guo, Zhengtang; Wu, Haibin; Hao, Qingzhen (1 May 2015).
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made their first appearance and soon became one of Earth's most productive ecosystems.
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Bennett, C. Verity; Upchurch, Paul; Goin, Francisco J.; Goswami, Anjali (2018-02-06).
6318: 5944:"Enhanced magmatism played a dominant role in triggering the Miocene Climatic Optimum" 5888:"Global perturbation of the carbon cycle at the onset of the Miocene Climatic Optimum" 2664: 118:
Map of Earth as it appeared 20 million years ago during the Miocene, Burdigalian epoch
10353: 10317: 9752: 9628: 9551: 9487: 9405: 9387: 9344: 9251:(Crocodyliformes, Alligatoridae) from the Upper Miocene Urumaco Formation, Venezuela" 9219: 9162: 9100: 9072: 9054: 8998: 8914: 8881: 8863: 8742: 8730: 8681: 8547: 8529: 8428: 8377: 8344: 8332: 8307: 8284: 8272: 8220: 8175: 8114: 7936: 7924: 7879: 7789: 7771: 7721: 7655: 7507: 7480: 7424: 7368: 7312: 7273: 7268: 7246: 7128: 7112: 7057: 7032: 7027: 7008: 6946: 6890: 6830: 6786: 6730: 6642: 6590: 6550: 6476: 6451: 6420: 6395: 6356: 6348: 6323: 6249: 6224: 6197: 6137: 6081: 6050:"The challenge of simulating the warmth of the mid-Miocene climatic optimum in CESM1" 5973: 5943: 5917: 5892: 5805: 5753: 5693: 5641: 5489: 5437: 5425: 5361: 5305: 5293: 5244: 5171: 5087: 5039: 5019: 4864: 4696: 4684: 4628: 4572: 4542: 4520: 4499: 4463: 4425: 4407: 4385: 4366: 4304: 4263: 4197: 4174: 4089: 4062: 3973: 3908: 3853: 3701: 3528: 3306:'s Miocene fossil record is particularly rich. Marine deposits showcase a variety of 3199: 3110: 2866: 2755: 1611: 1558:
shoaled by approximately half of a kilometre during warm phases that corresponded to
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Herold, L.; Huber, M.; Greenwood, D. R.; Müller, R. D.; Seton, M. (1 January 2011).
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Western Australia, like today, was arid, particularly so during the Middle Miocene.
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which is estimated to have an age of less than 23 Ma or less than 5 Ma.
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continued to expand and forests to dwindle in extent. In the seas of the Miocene,
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Furió, Marc; Casanovas-Vilar, Isaac; van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W. (1 May 2011).
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You, Y.; Huber, M.; Müller, R. D.; Poulsen, C. J.; Ribbe, J. (19 February 2009).
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thrived during this period before becoming the only extinct marine mammal order.
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The late Miocene also marks the extinction of the last-surviving members of the
10566: 10385: 10255: 10150: 10119: 9510:"Cenozoic Planktonic Marine Diatom Diversity and Correlation to Climate Change" 9479: 9383: 9133:"The earliest known member of the rorqual—gray whale clade (Mammalia, Cetacea)" 9050: 8913:(First ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 284–323. 8634: 8503:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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The Karakul depression in Pamirs - the first impact structure in central Asia
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In the Early Miocene, several Oligocene groups were still diverse, including
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Han, Wenxia; Fang, Xiaomin; Berger, André; Yin, Qiuzhen (22 December 2011).
7409: 7391:"CO2-forced Late Miocene cooling and ecosystem reorganizations in East Asia" 7085:"The late Miocene to Pleistocene ice-rafting history of southeast Greenland" 6704: 6664: 6344: 6275: 5775: 5607: 4925: 4764:
Macharé, José; Devries, Thomas; Barron, John; Fourtanier, Élisabeth (1988).
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Orangel A. Aguilera, Douglas Riff & Jean Bocquentin-Villanueva (2006).
9223: 9076: 8885: 8859: 8551: 8359:"Eucalyptus fossils in New Zealand - the thin end of the wedge - Mike Pole" 8336: 8179: 8118: 8100: 7928: 7793: 7725: 7428: 7061: 7012: 6594: 6360: 6076: 5248: 5175: 5157: 4429: 4370: 4327:"Two-step closure of the Miocene Indian Ocean Gateway to the Mediterranean" 4066: 3977: 3770: 3457: 3335: 3275: 3168: 3155: 3091: 3079: 3040: 2947: 2916: 2831: 2718: 2292: 2259: 2173: 2097: 2084: 1644:
Life during the Miocene Epoch was mostly supported by the two newly formed
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Cidade, Giovanne M.; Fortier, Daniel; Hsiou, Annie Schmaltz (March 2019).
8083:"Nature's green revolution: the remarkable evolutionary rise of C4 plants" 6447:"North Atlantic temperature and pCO2 coupling in the early-middle Miocene" 6319:"Middle Miocene Southern Ocean Cooling and Antarctic Cryosphere Expansion" 6026: 5442: 4720:
Rossetti, Dilce F.; Bezerra, Francisco H.R.; Dominguez, José M.L. (2013).
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Simon, Dirk; Palcu, Dan; Meijer, Paul; Krijgsman, Wout (7 December 2018).
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as well as a rich terrestrial mammal fauna composed of various species of
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Wilberg, Eric W.; Turner, Alan H.; Brochu, Christopher A. (2019-01-24).
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birds reached their highest diversity ever in the course of this epoch.
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The higher organic content and water retention of the deeper and richer
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Crespo, Vicente D.; Goin, Francisco J.; Pickford, Martin (2022-06-03).
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Nicolás R. Chimento, Federico L. Agnolin and Fernando E. Novas (2012).
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beneath South America 14 million years ago in the Miocene, forming the
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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sites that ice began to build up in Antarctica about 36 Ma during the
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The last known representatives of the archaic primitive mammal order
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grasses led to worldwide extinctions of herbivorous species without
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got drier as it entered a zone of low rainfall in the Late Miocene.
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Overview of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSP's)
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Wolfram M. Kürschner, Zlatko Kvacek & David L. Dilcher (2008).
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diversified into their largest forms as terrestrial predators like
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Matsuzaki, Kenji M.; Ikeda, Masayuki; Tada, Ryuji (20 July 2022).
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Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, 206 Scientific Results
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associated to the triple junction disturbed previous patterns of
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Susanne S. Renner (2011). "Living fossil younger than thought".
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land connection between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia. The subsequent
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in the late Miocene was partly responsible for the shrinking of
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was absent, although South America was approaching the western
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John, Kristen E. K. St.; Krissek, Lawrence A. (28 June 2008).
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Zhang, Ran; Zhang, Zhongshi; Jiang, Dabang (23 October 2018).
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in the Middle Miocene (14–12 million years ago) the resulting
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among terrestrial herbivores correlates to fluctuations in CO
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by the 41 kyr obliquity cycle. A major reorganisation of the
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from youngest to oldest are typically named according to the
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Dooley, Alton C.; Fraser, Nicholas C.; Luo, Zhe-Xi (2004).
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species, including early representatives of clades such as
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which inhabited South America. Another gigantic form was a
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and grasslands. Grasslands allow for more grazers, such as
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and Early Miocene, the coast of northern Brazil, Colombia,
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may have preyed upon other species of pinnipeds including
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sink. This, combined with higher surface albedo and lower
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was a savanna akin to that of the western margins of the
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in North America and the significant diversification of
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from the reduction of deserts and expansion of forests.
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Retallack, Gregory J.; Conde, Giselle D. (June 2020).
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of grassland, contributed to a cooler, drier climate.
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Du, Jinlong; Tian, Jun; Ma, Wentao (15 April 2022).
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Mao, Xuegang; Retallack, Gregory (15 January 2019).
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Goldner, A.; Herold, N.; Huber, M. (13 March 2014).
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The "Middle Miocene disruption" refers to a wave of
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The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist 9692:American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts 9616: 8578:Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 8404:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 8371: 8304: 8195:"Fire and the Miocene expansion of C4 grasslands" 6918:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 6862:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 6814:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 6622:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 6169:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 6113:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 5565:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 5517:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 5328:"Deep time perspective on rising atmospheric CO2" 4871: 4652: 4276: 4235:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 4146:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 3544:"Neogene Expansion of the North American Prairie" 3296:, which were considerably larger than modern age 10588: 7957:: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( 7806: 7028:"Seven Million Years of Glaciation in Greenland" 4710: 3541: 1436:. Connection would have occurred through narrow 9950: 9130: 5605: 5551: 4783: 4754: 9567: 9565: 8904: 8902: 8452: 7440: 7438: 7162: 6662: 6501:Woodruff, Fay; Savin, Samuel (December 1991). 5661: 5325: 4134: 4132: 4080:Torsvik, Trond H.; Cocks, L. Robin M. (2017). 3601: 961:patterns in Asia, which were interlinked with 9936: 9820: 8558: 7939:. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023 7260: 6744: 6614: 6500: 1830: 1726:, displacing desert, woodland, and browsers. 1332:and aridification of the Asian interior. The 9747:Cox, C. Barry & Moore, Peter D. (1993): 8803: 8192: 6910: 6854: 4905:Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 4449: 4231: 4123: 4111: 4079: 3535: 3499: 3428: 1416:, central Chile and large swathes of inland 513:Subdivision of the Neogene according to the 9562: 8899: 8070: 8035:(4). University of Chicago Press: 407–426. 7435: 7082: 6750: 6155: 5188:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 4901: 4129: 3762: 3362:Microbial life in the igneous crust of the 3002:from Asia, and the possible herpetotheriid 1707:, led to a major expansion of grass-grazer 784: 9943: 9929: 9827: 9813: 6857:"Late Miocene drying of central Australia" 4138: 3404:There is evidence from oxygen isotopes at 1837: 1823: 9545: 9535: 9399: 9090:Peter Klimley & David Ainley (1996). 9066: 8875: 8724: 8675: 8541: 8523: 8480: 8169: 8159: 8108: 8017: 7783: 7715: 7576: 7418: 7408: 7302: 7102: 7002: 6807:Retallack, Gregory J. (4 November 2004). 6806: 6584: 6075: 6025: 5238: 5165: 5108: 5009: 4825: 4419: 4360: 4056: 4046: 4000:"International Chronostratigraphic Chart" 3992: 3898: 3843: 3732: 3665: 3629: 3245:, a clade of large terrestrial predatory 1234:The Mediterranean during the Late Miocene 923:had split away from the ancestors of the 911:first evolved and diversified during the 9317:Journal of South American Earth Sciences 8240: 4797:Journal of South American Earth Sciences 4007:International Commission on Stratigraphy 3384: 3120: 3104: 2761: 2745: 1671: 1576: 1510: 1269:Mountain building took place in western 1229: 1221: 987:International Commission on Stratigraphy 972: 8778:. University of Toronto. Archived from 8376:. New York: Freeman. pp. 525–526. 4840: 3871:Stoll, H.; Strömberg, C. a. E. (2021). 3006:from the late Early Miocene of Uganda. 2758:(Miocene) of Rainbow Basin, California. 957:occurred during the Miocene, affecting 14: 10589: 9710: 9467:Communications Earth & Environment 9306: 9304: 9186: 9184: 8908: 8571:: a Neogene survivor of Dryolestoidea" 7202: 5949:Communications Earth & Environment 4548:Communications Earth & Environment 2977:The youngest known representatives of 2731: 1786:fossil leaves occur in the Miocene of 1752:grasses, which are able to assimilate 837:; the name comes from the Greek words 510: 9924: 9808: 8941:Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 8755: 7639:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 7340:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 6710:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 6670:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 6508:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 6281:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 5725:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 5461:Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography 3878:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 3873:"The Miocene: The Future of the Past" 3823:Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 3795: 3747: 3334:, but also a diverse herpetofauna of 2830:, along with now-extinct groups like 1815: 520:Vertical axis: millions of years ago. 8963:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 8829:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 8773:"Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids" 8641: 8442:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 8294:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 7621:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 7203:Jacobs, Bonnie Fine (8 April 2016). 7192:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 6844:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 6105: 5707:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 5269:Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 4642:– via Elsevier Science Direct. 2674: 2652: 2630: 2606: 2586: 2566: 2542: 2522: 2499: 2476: 2456: 2436: 2416: 2396: 1804: 873:has. The Miocene is preceded by the 485: 465: 10542:= kiloannum (thousands years ago); 9301: 9259:Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9181: 9093:Great White Sharks: the Biology of 8446: 8248:Earth and Planetary Science Letters 7599:Earth and Planetary Science Letters 7556:Earth and Planetary Science Letters 6106:Kroh, Andreas (14 September 2007). 5845:Earth and Planetary Science Letters 5261: 4943:Earth and Planetary Science Letters 3509:Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2869:to North America. The expansion of 1376:) near the end of the Miocene. The 24: 10546:= megaannum (millions years ago); 9834: 9799:National Museum of Natural History 9741: 9447:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00119.x 9138:Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9083: 8804:van der Made, Jan (1 April 2014). 7104:10.1111/j.1502-3885.2002.tb01053.x 4468:Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 3768: 3395:whales pursued by the giant shark 3187:. Other notable large sharks were 25: 10618: 10550:= gigaannum (billions years ago). 9769: 8770: 4082:Earth history and palaeogeography 3425:time, about 3 million years ago. 3133:Children's Museum of Indianapolis 1564:Middle Miocene Climate Transition 1262:and a southward extension of the 1217: 877:and is followed by the Pliocene. 27:First epoch of the Neogene Period 10571: 10560: 9781:UCMP Berkeley Miocene Epoch Page 9683: 9635: 9629:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.206.013.2007 9610: 9501: 9453: 9416: 9351: 9238: 9124: 9016: 8967: 8927: 8833: 8797: 8764: 8749: 8700: 8602: 8489: 8390: 8365: 8351: 8298: 8221:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00767.x 3366:shifted from being dominated by 3290:waters witnessed the arrival of 2946:The youngest representatives of 1756:and water more efficiently than 1403: 771: 112: 45: 9670:10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104228 8482:10.5209/rev_jige.2010.v36.n2.11 8234: 8186: 8125: 8011: 7965: 7886: 7848: 7814:Journal of Geophysical Research 7732: 7673: 7625: 7585: 7542: 7494: 7382: 7326: 7196: 7156: 7119: 7076: 7019: 6960: 6904: 6848: 6800: 6696: 6656: 6608: 6542: 6494: 6438: 6382: 6307: 6267: 6211: 6099: 6041: 5991: 5935: 5879: 5831: 5767: 5711: 5690:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.02.002 5655: 5599: 5503: 5447: 5422:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103503 5354:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103177 5255: 5196: 5074: 5026: 4970: 4932: 4895: 4834: 4748:10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.04.005 4646: 4590: 4534: 4486: 4455: 4377: 4318: 4270: 4225: 4188: 4073: 4020: 3939: 3915: 3789: 3667:10.18814/epiiugs/2000/v23i3/005 3631:10.18814/epiiugs/1997/v20i1/005 3451: 3370:to being primarily composed of 2981:(the broader grouping to which 1258:, causing both the rise of the 1163:South American Land Mammal Ages 1126:North American Land Mammal Ages 968: 8954:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104569 8911:Fossil Snakes of North America 8756:Yirka, Bob (August 15, 2012). 8709:"The last African metatherian" 8567:"The Patagonian fossil mammal 8453:Matsumoto R, Evans SE (2010). 3733:Todhunter, Isaac, ed. (1876). 3714: 3707:Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary 3694: 3674: 3638: 3580: 2395: 1316:continued to collide with the 1226:Japan during the Early Miocene 826:Period and extends from about 464: 13: 1: 9989:Pleistocene (11.7 ka–2.58 Ma) 4625:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.01.008 4084:. Cambridge, United Kingdom: 3493: 3419:Antarctic Circumpolar Current 3372:sulphate-reducing prokaryotes 3357: 3224:, which inhabited modern age 3131:) from the collection of the 3009:Approximately 100 species of 9791:Human Timeline (Interactive) 9537:10.1371/journal.pone.0084857 9337:10.1016/j.jsames.2018.12.026 8820:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.003 8584:(2): 261–306. Archived from 8425:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.01.039 7997:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.05.009 7183:10.1016/j.palwor.2015.11.002 7054:10.1126/science.264.5161.952 6939:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109339 6883:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.008 6827:10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.07.024 6758:Geophysical Research Letters 6643:10.1016/0031-0182(94)90251-8 6190:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.02.019 6134:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.039 5781:Geophysical Research Letters 5613:Geophysical Research Letters 5586:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.04.024 5538:10.1016/j.palaeo.2003.11.014 5262:You, Y. (17 February 2010). 4818:10.1016/j.jsames.2014.06.008 4681:10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106794 4284:Geophysical Research Letters 4256:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.008 4167:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109907 3529:10.1016/0012-821X(96)00109-4 2775:Both marine and continental 1722:across broad sweeps of open 1566:(MMCT). Abrupt increases in 1531:anthropogenic global warming 1497: 965:in the northern hemisphere. 7: 9952:Geological history of Earth 8018:Retallack, Gregory (2001). 5669:Global and Planetary Change 5333:Global and Planetary Change 5002:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.06.011 3776:Online Etymology Dictionary 3471: 3389:Artistic impression of two 3052:chimpanzee–human divergence 2922:Unequivocally-recognizable 2842:, and hornless rhinos like 2732: 1954: 1340:and drying it as a result. 977:Subdivisions of the Miocene 511: 250: 40:23.03 ± 0.3 – 5.333 ± 0.08 10: 10623: 10225:Mississippian (323–359 Ma) 10220:Pennsylvanian (299–323 Ma) 9984:Holocene (present–11.7 ka) 9480:10.1038/s43247-021-00170-2 9384:10.1038/s41598-018-36795-1 9051:10.1038/s41598-023-31034-8 8635:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.01.004 8460:Journal of Iberian Geology 8372:Steven M. 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As the southern part of 1440:that formed channels in a 1307: 852: 838: 618:Base of magnetic polarity 10537: 10522: 10509:Paleoarchean (3.2–3.6 Ga) 10486: 10446: 10415: 10384: 10371: 10359:Terreneuvian (521–539 Ma) 10331: 10300: 10264: 10233: 10207: 10176: 10163: 10128: 10097: 10071: 10058: 10023: 9997: 9971: 9958: 9842: 9280:10.1017/S147720190600188X 5290:10.1080/08120090903521671 3687:Dictionary.com Unabridged 3542:Retallack, G. J. (1997). 3435:Middle Miocene disruption 3429:Middle Miocene disruption 3406:Deep Sea Drilling Program 3380: 3175:. Prominent examples are 3109:Miocene fossils from the 2905:and bunodont otters like 1737:in sediments, produced a 1692:, fibrous, fire-tolerant 1374:Messinian salinity crisis 1089:European Land Mammal Ages 1058: 1033: 1005: 894:Messinian salinity crisis 755: 704: 697:Upper boundary definition 696: 688: 642: 613:Lower boundary definition 612: 604: 594: 584: 579: 571: 559: 549: 544: 536: 531: 477:Messinian salinity crisis 128: 123: 111: 37: 32: 10504:Mesoarchean (2.8–3.2 Ga) 10349:Miaolingian (497–509 Ma) 10194:Guadalupian (260–272 Ma) 10046:Paleocene (56.0–66.0 Ma) 10036:Oligocene (23.0–33.9 Ma) 9765:". Retrieved 2006-04-30. 8909:Holman, J. 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8.8364 677: 675: 671: 668: 663: 660: 658: 656: 655: 654: 527: 522: 521: 519: 502: 496:North American 495: 489: 480: 475: 469: 462: 461: 457: 456: 452: 451: 447: 446: 442: 441: 436: 433: 432: 427: 424: 423: 418: 415: 414: 409: 406: 405: 400: 397: 396: 391: 388: 387: 382: 379: 378: 373: 370: 369: 363: 362: 358: 356: 354: 351: 348: 347: 343: 341: 339: 337: 335: 333: 330: 327: 326: 320: 319: 311: 310: 305: 303: 301: 299: 297: 295: 291: 288: 287: 282: 280: 275: 274: 269: 267: 265: 263: 261: 259: 257: 253: 248: 245: 243: 240: 238: 235: 233: 230: 228: 225: 223: 220: 218: 215: 213: 210: 208: 205: 203: 200: 198: 195: 193: 190: 188: 185: 183: 180: 178: 175: 173: 170: 168: 165: 163: 160: 158: 155: 153: 150: 148: 145: 143: 140: 138: 135: 119: 106: 105: 100: 95: 90: 85: 80: 75: 70: 65: 60: 55: 50: 39: 38: 28: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 10620: 10610: 10609: 10604: 10599: 10582: 10581: 10538: 10535: 10534: 10531: 10529: 10520: 10519: 10517: 10516: 10511: 10506: 10501: 10495: 10493: 10484: 10483: 10480: 10479: 10477: 10476: 10471: 10466: 10461: 10455: 10453: 10444: 10443: 10441: 10440: 10435: 10430: 10424: 10422: 10413: 10412: 10410: 10409: 10404: 10399: 10393: 10391: 10379: 10369: 10368: 10365: 10364: 10362: 10361: 10356: 10351: 10346: 10340: 10338: 10329: 10328: 10326: 10325: 10320: 10315: 10309: 10307: 10298: 10297: 10295: 10294: 10289: 10284: 10279: 10273: 10271: 10262: 10261: 10259: 10258: 10253: 10248: 10242: 10240: 10231: 10230: 10228: 10227: 10222: 10216: 10214: 10209:Carboniferous 10205: 10204: 10202: 10201: 10196: 10191: 10185: 10183: 10171: 10161: 10160: 10157: 10156: 10154: 10153: 10148: 10143: 10137: 10135: 10126: 10125: 10123: 10122: 10117: 10112: 10106: 10104: 10095: 10094: 10092: 10091: 10086: 10080: 10078: 10066: 10056: 10055: 10052: 10051: 10049: 10048: 10043: 10038: 10032: 10030: 10027:(23.0–66.0 Ma) 10021: 10020: 10018: 10017: 10012: 10006: 10004: 10001:(2.58–23.0 Ma) 9995: 9994: 9992: 9991: 9986: 9980: 9978: 9966: 9956: 9955: 9948: 9947: 9940: 9933: 9925: 9916: 9915: 9911: 9910: 9908: 9907: 9902: 9896: 9894: 9892: 9891: 9886: 9881: 9876: 9871: 9866: 9860: 9857: 9856: 9854:Pliocene Epoch 9851: 9843: 9840: 9839: 9836:Neogene Period 9832: 9831: 9824: 9817: 9809: 9803: 9802: 9801:(August 2016). 9788: 9783: 9778: 9771: 9770:External links 9768: 9767: 9766: 9759: 9743: 9740: 9738: 9737: 9709: 9682: 9634: 9609: 9561: 9500: 9452: 9433:(4): 329–360. 9415: 9350: 9300: 9297:on 2012-03-29. 9266:(3): 221–232. 9237: 9180: 9145:(2): 453–463. 9123: 9105: 9082: 9015: 8966: 8926: 8919: 8898: 8832: 8796: 8771:Begun, David. 8763: 8748: 8719:(1): 173–186. 8699: 8662:(2): 171–198. 8640: 8621:(5): 371–377. 8601: 8557: 8488: 8467:(2): 253–274. 8445: 8411:(3): 219–229. 8389: 8382: 8364: 8350: 8297: 8233: 8207:(7): 683–690. 8185: 8124: 8079:Beerling, D.J. 8069: 8066:on 2013-05-06. 8049:10.1086/320791 8010: 7964: 7885: 7847: 7799: 7731: 7672: 7646:(2): 164–178. 7624: 7584: 7541: 7493: 7434: 7381: 7325: 7281:(8): 664–670. 7259: 7217:(3): 399–421. 7195: 7155: 7136:(8): 542–546. 7118: 7075: 7018: 6959: 6903: 6847: 6799: 6743: 6717:(4): 688–699. 6695: 6655: 6607: 6541: 6515:(6): 755–806. 6493: 6459:(6): 519–522. 6437: 6381: 6306: 6266: 6210: 6154: 6120:(1): 169–207. 6098: 6062:(2): 523–536. 6040: 6012:(5): 675–694. 5990: 5934: 5900:(2): 123–126. 5878: 5830: 5766: 5732:(9): 845–853. 5710: 5654: 5598: 5550: 5524:(1–2): 43–67. 5502: 5468:(3): 316–328. 5446: 5374: 5318: 5276:(2): 207–219. 5254: 5195: 5116: 5073: 5025: 4981:Tectonophysics 4969: 4931: 4894: 4870: 4833: 4782: 4753: 4709: 4660:Marine Geology 4645: 4589: 4533: 4485: 4454: 4442: 4376: 4317: 4269: 4224: 4205:(6): 543–546. 4187: 4128: 4126:, p. 267. 4116: 4101: 4094: 4072: 4041:(4): 681–699. 4019: 3991: 3938: 3914: 3859: 3805: 3788: 3761: 3759: 3758: 3745: 3713: 3693: 3690:(Online). n.d. 3673: 3660:(3): 179–187. 3637: 3600: 3579: 3554:(4): 380–390. 3534: 3497: 3495: 3492: 3491: 3490: 3485: 3480: 3473: 3470: 3462:Karakul crater 3453: 3450: 3433:Main article: 3430: 3427: 3414:Middle Miocene 3392:Eobalaenoptera 3382: 3379: 3359: 3356: 3336:sphenodontians 3288:South American 3269:. A ferocious 3190:O. chubutensis 3029:Sahelanthropus 3000:Sinoperadectes 2966:Meridiolestida 2924:dabbling ducks 2917:Eulipotyphlans 2875: 2742: 2741: 2733: 2729: 2728: 2713: 2712: 2711: 2698: 2697: 2696: 2693: 2692: 2684: 2683: 2681: 2671: 2670: 2662: 2661: 2659: 2649: 2648: 2640: 2639: 2637: 2627: 2626: 2616: 2615: 2613: 2603: 2602: 2596: 2595: 2593: 2583: 2582: 2576: 2575: 2573: 2563: 2562: 2552: 2551: 2549: 2539: 2538: 2532: 2531: 2529: 2519: 2518: 2509: 2508: 2506: 2496: 2495: 2486: 2485: 2483: 2473: 2472: 2466: 2465: 2463: 2453: 2452: 2446: 2445: 2443: 2433: 2432: 2426: 2425: 2423: 2413: 2412: 2406: 2405: 2403: 2394: 2389: 2388: 2387: 2376: 2375: 2374: 2372: 2361: 2360: 2359: 2357: 2344: 2343: 2342: 2331: 2330: 2329: 2327: 2288: 2287: 2286: 2270:H. rudolfensis 2255: 2254: 2253: 2214: 2213: 2212: 2199: 2198: 2197: 2184: 2183: 2182: 2169: 2168: 2167: 2146: 2145: 2144: 2133: 2132: 2131: 2124:Graecopithecus 2120: 2119: 2118: 2111:Sahelanthropus 2107: 2106: 2105: 2094: 2093: 2092: 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Minoa 706: 702: 701: 698: 694: 693: 690: 686: 685: 644: 640: 639: 638: 637: 623: 614: 610: 609: 606: 602: 601: 596: 592: 591: 586: 582: 581: 577: 576: 575:ICS Time Scale 573: 569: 568: 561: 560:Regional usage 557: 556: 551: 550:Celestial body 547: 546: 542: 541: 538: 537:Name formality 534: 533: 529: 528: 524: 523: 508: 507: 504: 503: 494: 492: 482: 481: 474: 472: 463: 459: 458: 454: 453: 449: 448: 444: 443: 435: 434: 426: 425: 417: 416: 408: 407: 399: 398: 390: 389: 381: 380: 372: 371: 365: 364: 350: 349: 329: 328: 322: 321: 313: 312: 290: 289: 277: 276: 252: 251: 249: 244: 239: 234: 229: 224: 219: 214: 209: 204: 199: 194: 189: 184: 179: 174: 169: 164: 159: 154: 149: 144: 139: 134: 129: 126: 125: 121: 120: 117: 109: 108: 101: 96: 91: 86: 81: 76: 71: 66: 61: 56: 51: 46: 35: 34: 26: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 10619: 10608: 10605: 10603: 10600: 10598: 10595: 10594: 10592: 10579: 10574: 10568: 10563: 10557: 10554: 10549: 10545: 10541: 10536: 10530: 10528: 10521: 10515: 10512: 10510: 10507: 10505: 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10070: 10067: 10065: 10063:(66.0–252 Ma) 10057: 10047: 10044: 10042: 10039: 10037: 10034: 10033: 10031: 10029: 10022: 10016: 10013: 10011: 10008: 10007: 10005: 10003: 9996: 9990: 9987: 9985: 9982: 9981: 9979: 9977: 9970: 9967: 9965: 9957: 9953: 9946: 9941: 9939: 9934: 9932: 9927: 9926: 9923: 9906: 9903: 9901: 9898: 9897: 9895: 9890: 9887: 9885: 9882: 9880: 9877: 9875: 9872: 9870: 9867: 9865: 9862: 9861: 9859: 9858: 9855: 9852: 9850: 9849:Miocene Epoch 9847: 9846: 9841: 9837: 9830: 9825: 9823: 9818: 9816: 9811: 9810: 9807: 9800: 9796: 9792: 9789: 9787: 9784: 9782: 9779: 9777: 9774: 9773: 9764: 9760: 9758: 9757:0-632-02967-6 9754: 9750: 9746: 9745: 9733: 9729: 9722: 9721: 9713: 9705: 9701: 9698:: P31A–1701. 9697: 9693: 9686: 9671: 9667: 9663: 9659: 9655: 9651: 9650: 9645: 9638: 9630: 9626: 9622: 9621: 9613: 9605: 9601: 9597: 9593: 9589: 9585: 9581: 9577: 9576: 9568: 9566: 9557: 9553: 9548: 9543: 9538: 9533: 9529: 9525: 9522:(1): e84857. 9521: 9517: 9516: 9511: 9504: 9489: 9485: 9481: 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