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Paleogeography

Drift South America Isthmus of Panama Great American Interchange Native ungulate

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Subdivisions

International Commission on Stratigraphy Stages Piacenzian Zanclean North American Land Mammal Ages

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Climate

Messinian Obliquity amplitude modulation cycle Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period Climate sensitivity Glaciation

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Fauna

Herbivores Gastropod Oliva sayana Florida Coral

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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)

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Subdivisions

International Commission on Stratigraphy
Stages Stage (stratigraphy)
Piacenzian
Zanclean
North American Land Mammal Ages
Hemphillian
Blancan
South American Land Mammal Ages
Montehermosan
Chapadmalalan
Uquian
Paratethys
Europe
Britain Great Britain
Waltonian Red Crag Formation
Bramertonian Bramertonian Stage
Pre-Pastonian
Pastonian Pastonian Stage
Beestonian Beestonian stage
Netherlands
Praetiglian
Tiglian
Eburonian

Climate

Messinian
Obliquity amplitude modulation cycle Milankovitch cycles
Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period
Climate sensitivity
Glaciation Glacier
Greenland Greenland ice sheet
Ice cap
Oxygen
Isotope
Ice-rafted
North Atlantic North Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Climate system
Obliquity Axial tilt
Orbital eccentricity
Central Asia
Loess Plateau
Δ13C
Indonesian Throughflow
Andes
Southern Hemisphere
Westerlies
Heathlands
Shrublands Shrubland
Woodlands Woodland
Sea surface temperature
El Niño
Increased tropical cyclone activity Cyclonic Niño
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Kyr Kiloannus

Paleogeography

Environment and evolution of human ancestors

Hominin Hominini
Australopithecus anamensis
Homo
Modern humans Homo sapiens
Encephalized brains Encephalization quotient
Neocortex
Dating methods Chronological dating
Climate proxies Proxy (climate)
Savannah hypothesis
Savannah
Grafton Elliot Smith
Raymond Dart
Killer ape theory
Sherwood L. Washburn

Flora

Fauna

Oceans

Arctic ice cap formed Arctic sea ice ecology and history
Sea cows Sirenia
Seals Pinniped
Sea lions Sea lion
Sharks Megalodon
Whales Macroraptorial sperm whale

Supernovae

O and B stars Stellar classification
Scorpius–Centaurus Scorpius–Centaurus association
OB association
Supernova
Local Bubble
Ozone layer
Absolute magnitude
Iron-60 Isotopes of iron
Local Interstellar Cloud

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Pliocene

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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

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Pliocene	Celestial body	Earth	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Chronological unit	Epoch	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Lower boundary definition	Base of the Thvera magnetic event (C3n.4n), which is only 96 ka (5 precession cycles) younger than the GSSP	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Lower boundary GSSP	Heraclea 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-…	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Lower GSSP ratified	2000	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Name formality	Formal	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Regional usage	Global (ICS)	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Stratigraphic unit	Series	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Time scale(s) used	ICS Time Scale	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Time span formality	Formal	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Upper boundary definition	Base of magnetic polarity chronozone C2r (Matuyama)	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Upper boundary definition	Extinction of the Haptophytes Discoaster pentaradiatus and Discoaster surculus	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Upper boundary GSSP	Monte San Nicola Section, Gela, Sicily, Italy 37°08′49″N 14°12′13″E / 37.1469°N 14.2035°E / 37.1469; 14.2035	1.00	infobox
Pliocene	Upper GSSP ratified	2009 (as base of Quaternary and Pleistocene)	1.00	infobox

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