NOUN
- from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
How To Use Pliocene epoch In A Sentence
- the zoology of the Pliocene epoch
- The fossils from the formation represent organisms that thrived during the Pliocene epoch, at the end of the Tertiary period.
- Volcanism in the Pliocene epoch overtopped the existing Miocene volcanics of Ecoregion 4b. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
- About halfway through the Pliocene epoch several important tectonic events occurred.
- The edentata being proved (as I hold) to have been mere temporary migrants into North America in the post-Pliocene epoch, form no part of its Tertiary fauna. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2