Betydelse av Pliocene på svenska

• 0 from or referring to the period of time between around 5.3 million and 1.8 million years ago, in which many modern mammals and the first modern humans appeared:

  • Whitney concluded the skull was Pliocene, evidence that humans occupied North America more than 1 million years ago.

  • In the Pliocene era the Valdarno was a vast lake, its shores patrolled by troops of prehistoric elephants.

• 1 the period of time between around 5.3 million and 1.8 million years ago, in which many modern mammals and the first modern humans appeared:

  • the end of the Pliocene

  • Their comparative scarcity at the present time probably results from climatic changes in the Pliocene.