How to use in-sentence of “pliocene”:
– This clade diverged from other “Falco” around the Miocene to Pliocene about 7–3.5 million years ago.
– Molecular dating suggests that the family DeerCervidae originated and radiated in central Asia during the Late Odocoileini dispersed to North America during the Miocene/Pliocene boundary and underwent an adaptive radiation in South America after their Pliocene dispersal across the Isthmus of Panama.
– Palaeoanthropology: the middle Pliocene gets crowded.
– Koobi Fora is underlain by Pliocene basalts and filled with nearly 600 meters of Pliocene-Pleistocene sediments, dating from about four-million to one-million years ago.
– The extinctions followed climate change, as the world cooled and grassland took over from woodland in the Pliocene and Pleistocene.
– Over the decades of the 20th century, there were fossil finds of pre-human and early human species from late Miocene and early Pliocene times.
– Modern elephants – the actual family family Elephantidae – evolved from gomphotheres as the climate became cooler and drier in the Pliocene and Pleistocene.
– New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity.
