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    The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma (million years...
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    The Zanclean flood or Zanclean deluge is theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago. This flooding ended the Messinian salinity...
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  • Ma (million years ago). It follows the Tortonian and is followed by the Zanclean, the first age of the Pliocene. The Messinian overlaps the Turolian European...
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    Piacenzian (3.600–2.58 Ma) Zanclean (5.333–3.600 Ma) The Piacenzian is sometimes referred to as the Late Pliocene, whereas the Zanclean is referred to as the...
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    Formation, a marine sedimentary unit of Lower Pliocene (Zanclean) age, which were deposited after the Zanclean flood, in which the Mediterranean refilled after...
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    Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma (million years ago). It ended with the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin. Sediment samples from below...
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    years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago. The Mediterranean Sea covers an area...
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    Mediterranean refilled at the Miocene–Pliocene boundary, in an event called the Zanclean flood. The apes first evolved and diversified during the early Miocene...
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  • was first described by Jim Bourdon in 1999, as a specimen dated to the Zanclean (early Pliocene). The species is known from its distinctive fossilized...
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    diverged from other Falco around the Miocene–Pliocene boundary (Messinian to Zanclean, or about 7–3.5 mya). The most basal "true" kestrels are three species...
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  • 0.005 Ma and 2.58 Ma (million years ago). The Piacenzian is after the Zanclean and is followed by the Gelasian (part of the Pleistocene). The Piacenzian...
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    quite confidently placed from the Miocene-Pliocene boundary through the Zanclean and Piacenzian and just into the Gelasian, that is from 2.4 to 5.3 Mya...
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    Cassowary (category Extant Zanclean first appearances)
    Cassowaries (Tok Pisin: muruk, Indonesian: kasuari, Biak: man suar 'bird strong', Papuan:[citation needed] kasu weri 'horned head' ) are flightless birds...
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    Washington state. Paulownia macrofossils have been recovered from the late Zanclean stage of the Pliocene sites in Pocapaglia, Italy and Paulownia caucasica...
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    Pliocene Epoch is subdivided into two ages: Piacenzian Age, preceded by Zanclean Age The Miocene Epoch is subdivided into six ages: Messinian Age, preceded...
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    Poland. Several Aralia macrofossils have been recovered from the late Zanclean stage of Pliocene sites in Pocapaglia, Italy. Sunset Western Garden Book...
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    salinity crisis. Eurasia and Africa were then again separated with the Zanclean Flood around 5.33 million years ago refilling the Mediterranean Sea through...
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    Jutland, Denmark. Eurya macrofossils have also been described from late Zanclean strata of the Pliocene in Pocapaglia, Italy. Seed fossils of Eurya stigmosa...
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  • Quaternary Pleistocene Gelasian younger Neogene Pliocene Piacenzian 2.58 3.600 Zanclean 3.600 5.333 Miocene Messinian 5.333 7.246 Tortonian 7.246 11.63 Serravallian...
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    Muslim conquest of Mediterranean islands MISTRALS Ottoman Empire Phoenicia Zanclean flood Natura 2000 in the Mediterranean Region (PDF). European Commission...
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    Tarantian stages of Florida, United States) †Podiceps howardae Storer, 2001 (Zanclean age of North Carolina, United States) †Podiceps miocenicus Kessler, 1984...
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    the late Zanclean stage of Pliocene sites in Pocapaglia, Italy. Macrofossils of Sinomenium cantalense have been recovered from the Zanclean stage of the...
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    is the oldest known pantherine cat dated to the late Messinian to early Zanclean ages about 5.95 to 4.1 million years ago. A fossil skull was excavated...
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    Australopithecus common in East Africa; Stone Age begins. 3.6 * Zanclean Zanclean flooding of the Mediterranean Basin. Cooling climate continues from...
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  • Quaternary Pleistocene Gelasian younger Neogene Pliocene Piacenzian 2.58 3.600 Zanclean 3.600 5.333 Miocene Messinian 5.333 7.246 Tortonian 7.246 11.63 Serravallian...
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    Plain in northern Italy in two sites dated to the Zanclean and in three sites of supposed Zanclean age "Index Nominum Genericorum -- Ehretia". International...
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    (Camarinal Sill), at a depth of 280 m. Its formation is linked to the Zanclean flood and the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis, when the Mediterranean...
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    possibly acting as an additional stressor to their already collapsing niche. Zanclean range is based on Livyatan-like fossils assigned open nomenclature as cf...
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    Komodo dragon (category Extant Zanclean first appearances)
    The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large reptile of the monitor lizard family Varanidae that is endemic to...
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    Wagtails spread rapidly across Eurasia and dispersed to Africa in the Zanclean (Early Pliocene) where the sub-Saharan lineage was later isolated. The...
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