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Pliocene: Geography & Regions

The Pliocene ( /ˈplaɪ.əsiːn, ˈplaɪ.oʊ-/ PLY-ə-seen, PLY-oh-; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58 million years ago (Ma). It is the second and most recent epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch. Prior to the 2009…

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Pliocene topic overview

The analysis highlights Geography and Regions as prominent areas in the source structure around Pliocene.

Related topics
224
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
234
Extracted relationships
215
Concept neighborhoods
35
Bridge connections
234

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Fauna · 100 topics
Climate · 31 topics
Paleogeography · 23 topics
Subdivisions · 23 topics
Environment and evolution of human ancestors · 14 topics
Supernovae · 9 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Flora · 7 topics
Oceans · 6 topics
Etymology · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Celestial body
Earth
Chronological unit
Epoch
Lower boundary definition
Base of the Thvera magnetic event (C3n.4n), which is only 96 ka (5 precession cycles) younger than the GSSP
Lower GSSP ratified
2000
Name formality
Formal
Regional usage
Global (ICS)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Etymology

Subdivisions

Climate

Paleogeography

Environment and evolution of human ancestors

Flora

Fauna

Oceans

Supernovae

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Pliocene connects Entity context

The extracted context around Pliocene shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Pliocene → Africa, Agriotherium, Anancus, Asia, Borophagine, Bovines, Deinotherium, Elephants, Ground, Horse, Hyraxes, In Eurasia, In North America, Isthmus, Late Pliocene, Ma, Mammut, Nannippus, North America, North American Another extracted example is Pliocene → August, Berkeley Pliocene Epoch PagePliocene, Change, Deep Time, Earth, Encyclopædia Britannica, February, Howe, Interactive, John Allan, Microfossils, Mid-Pliocene Global Warming, NASA/GISS Climate ModelingPalaeos PliocenePBS, National Museum, Natural History, Pliocene ForaminiferaHuman Timeline, PliocenePossible Pliocene, Science News Online, Smithsonian, Stellar. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Pliocene

Top relations

related to Mammals · 23
Pliocene → Africa, Agriotherium, Anancus, Asia, Borophagine, Bovines, Deinotherium, Elephants, Ground, Horse, Hyraxes, In Eurasia, In North America, Isthmus, Late Pliocene, Ma, Mammut, Nannippus, North America, North American
related to External links · 22
Pliocene → August, Berkeley Pliocene Epoch PagePliocene, Change, Deep Time, Earth, Encyclopædia Britannica, February, Howe, Interactive, John Allan, Microfossils, Mid-Pliocene Global Warming, NASA/GISS Climate ModelingPalaeos PliocenePBS, National Museum, Natural History, Pliocene ForaminiferaHuman Timeline, PliocenePossible Pliocene, Science News Online, Smithsonian, Stellar
related to Image gallery · 19
Pliocene → Ammusium, Anadara, Aporrhais, Cladocora, CyprusA, CyprusChesapecten, CyprusThe, CyprusVermetid, Dentalium, Diodora, Entobia, FloridaThe, Oliva, Petaloconchus, Spondylus, The, Turritella, Virginia, York River
related to Paleogeography · 19
Pliocene → Africa's, Antarctic, Arctic, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, Continents, Europe, Great American Interchange, Isthmus, Mediterranean Sea, Messinian, Miocene, North America, Panama, South America, South America's, South American, Tethys Ocean, The
related to Birds · 18
Pliocene → Africa, At, Bubo, Canary Islands, Central Asia, Corvus, Cygnus, Early Pliocene, Lanzarote, North America, Other, Piacenzian, Ratite, South American, Struthio, The, Titanis, Zanclean
related to Environment and evolution of human ancestors · 18
Pliocene → According, Anthropologists, Australopithecus, Early, For, Grafton Elliot Smith, Homo, Improvements, Key, Man, Other, Raymond Dart, Sherwood, The, The Evolution, The Pliocene, This, Washburn
related to Climate · 17
Pliocene → Arctic, By, During, Earth's, Global, Greenland, However, Ma, Messinian, Mid-latitude, Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period, Miocene, North Atlantic, North Pacific Ocean, Pleistocene, The, This
related to Reptiles and amphibians · 14
Pliocene → Alligator, Alligators, Allocaudata, Australia, Europe, Giant, Hesperotestudo, Madtsoid, Miocene, North America, Rattlesnakes, Tennessee, The, Venomous
related to Supernovae · 13
Pliocene → Antarctica, Centaurus OB, Earth, Earth's, Furthermore, In, Local Bubble, Local Interstellar Cloud, Narciso Benítez, Pliocene Epoch, Radioactive, Scorpius, Such
related to Oceans · 11
Pliocene → Antarctic, Cenozoic, Cretaceous, Deep, Isthmus, North Atlantic, Oceans, Panama, The, The Arctic, This

Important terminology

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Important terminology

ma pleistocene epoch north africa years ago climate global late time million evolution american zanclean miocene rodents early south became

Pliocene relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 215 structured relationships around Pliocene. Examples in this analysis include Pliocene → Celestial body → Earth and Pliocene → Chronological unit → Epoch. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PlioceneCelestial bodyEarth1.00infobox
PlioceneChronological unitEpoch1.00infobox
PlioceneLower boundary definitionBase of the Thvera magnetic event (C3n.4n), which is only 96 ka (5 precession cycles) younger than the GSSP1.00infobox
PlioceneLower boundary GSSPHeraclea Minoa section, Heraclea Minoa, Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-…1.00infobox
PlioceneLower GSSP ratified20001.00infobox
PlioceneName formalityFormal1.00infobox
PlioceneRegional usageGlobal (ICS)1.00infobox
PlioceneStratigraphic unitSeries1.00infobox
PlioceneTime scale(s) usedICS Time Scale1.00infobox
PlioceneTime span formalityFormal1.00infobox
PlioceneUpper boundary definitionBase of magnetic polarity chronozone C2r (Matuyama)1.00infobox
PlioceneUpper boundary definitionExtinction of the Haptophytes Discoaster pentaradiatus and Discoaster surculus1.00infobox
PlioceneUpper boundary GSSPMonte San Nicola Section, Gela, Sicily, Italy 37°08′49″N 14°12′13″E / 37.1469°N 14.2035°E / 37.1469; 14.20351.00infobox
PlioceneUpper GSSP ratified2009 (as base of Quaternary and Pleistocene)1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Pliocene bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Late, Pleistocene and Ma. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Pliocene
    • Late
    • Pleistocene
    • Ma
    • Ago
    • Years
    • Climate
    • Miocene
    • Continued
    • Million
    • Earth
    • Asia
    • End
  • pliocene
    • Late
    • Pleistocene
    • Ma
    • Ago
    • Years
    • Climate
    • Miocene
    • Continued
    • Million
    • Earth
    • Asia
    • End
  • epoch
    • Ago
    • Years
    • Million
    • Earth
    • End
    • Time
    • Pleistocene
    • Geologic
    • Ma
    • Ics
    • Scale
    • Mammals
  • north american land mammal ages
    • South
    • America
    • Mammals
    • North
    • Time
    • Ma
    • Rodents
    • Became
    • Species
    • Epoch
    • Ice
    • Continued
  • geologic time scale
    • Scale
    • Time
    • Years
    • American
    • Earth
    • Mammals
    • Pleistocene
    • America
    • North
    • South
    • Ics
    • Global
  • zanclean
    • Piacenzian
    • Ics
    • Asia
    • Ago
    • Ma
    • Years
    • Late
    • Also
    • Earth
    • Mammals
    • Relatively
    • Around
  • climate sensitivity
    • Evolution
    • Earth
    • Pliocene
    • Ice
    • Million
    • Pleistocene
    • Africa
    • Epoch
    • Years
    • North
    • Ma
    • Ics
  • climate system
    • Evolution
    • Earth
    • Pliocene
    • Ice
    • Million
    • Pleistocene
    • Africa
    • Epoch
    • Years
    • North
    • Ma
    • Ics

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Pliocene, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Pliocene with Fauna. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Pliocene — Fauna · splits 134 ⟂ 101
Pliocene — Climate · splits 203 ⟂ 32
Pliocene — Subdivisions · splits 211 ⟂ 24
Pliocene — Paleogeography · splits 211 ⟂ 24
Pliocene — Environment and evolution of human ancestors · splits 220 ⟂ 15
Pliocene — Supernovae · splits 225 ⟂ 10
Pliocene — Overview · splits 226 ⟂ 9
Pliocene — Flora · splits 227 ⟂ 8
Pliocene — Oceans · splits 228 ⟂ 7
Pliocene — Etymology · splits 231 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Pliocene

Nodes235
Edges234
Triples215
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008511
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Pliocene to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Geography & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Pliocene · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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