The Pleistocene (/ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn, -stoʊ-/ PLY-stə-seen, -stoh-; referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from c. 2...
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The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic...
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The Early Pleistocene is an unofficial sub-epoch in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, representing the earliest division of...
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The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna (typically defined as animal species...
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Pleistocene Park (Russian: Плейстоценовый парк, romanized: Pleystotsenovyy park) is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha...
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During the Pleistocene, wolves were widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. Some Pleistocene wolves, such as Beringian wolves and those from...
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Panthera spelaea (redirect from Upper Pleistocene Eurasian cave lion)
species that was native to Eurasia and northwest North America during the Pleistocene epoch. Genetic analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that while closely...
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The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), also known as the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution (MPR), is a fundamental change in the behaviour of glacial cycles during...
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Pleistocene rewilding is the advocacy of the reintroduction of extant Pleistocene megafauna, or the close ecological equivalents of extinct megafauna...
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Schernfeld, Pleistocene) †Ochotona filippovi (Siberia, Pleistocene) †Ochotona gracilis (Asia, Pliocene) †Ochotona horaceki (Slovakia: Honce, Pleistocene) †Ochotona...
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Quaternary glaciation (redirect from Pleistocene glaciation)
The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary...
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Chibanian (redirect from Middle Pleistocene age)
The Chibanian, more widely known as Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy...
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Bison schoetensacki (redirect from Pleistocene woodland bison)
commonly as the Pleistocene woodland bison or Pleistocene wood bison, was a species of bison that lived from the Early Pleistocene to at least the early...
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The Pleistocene coyote (Canis latrans orcutti), also known as the Ice Age coyote, is an extinct subspecies of coyote that lived in western North America...
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Panthera youngi (redirect from North-Eastern Pleistocene China cave lion)
species. It is estimated to have lived about 350,000 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch. It was suggested that it was conspecific with Panthera atrox and...
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Homotherium (category Pleistocene carnivorans)
and Africa (as well as possibly South America) during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs from around 4 million to 12,000 years ago. It was one of the last...
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species or subspecies of archaic human which existed during the Middle Pleistocene. It was subsumed as a subspecies of H. erectus in 1950 as H. e. heidelbergensis...
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The Plio-Pleistocene is an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (Mya) and, drawing forward, combines...
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Panthera onca augusta (redirect from Pleistocene North American jaguar)
was endemic to North America during the Last Glacial Maximum of the Pleistocene epoch. Although P. onca still resides in the southern United States and...
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within the Pleistocene, the Pliocene also included the Gelasian Stage, which lasted from 2.59 to 1.81 Ma, and is now included in the Pleistocene. As with...
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to the present. The Quaternary Period is divided into two epochs: the Pleistocene (2.58 million years ago to 11.7 thousand years ago) and the Holocene...
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Neophoca palatina (redirect from Pleistocene New Zealand sea lion)
Neophoca palatina, the Pleistocene New Zealand sea lion, is an extinct species of pinniped known from a nearly-complete adult male skull found at Ōhope...
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around the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary approximately 2.6 million years ago, or around the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene approximately 0.8 million...
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American lion (category Pleistocene carnivorans)
is an extinct pantherine cat native to North America during the Late Pleistocene from around 130,000 to 12,800 years ago. Genetic evidence suggests that...
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The Paleolithic covers roughly 2.8 million years, concurrent with the Pleistocene, and includes multiple human ancestors with their own evolutionary and...
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Panthera fossilis (redirect from Early Middle Pleistocene European cave lion)
from remains found in Eurasia spanning the Middle Pleistocene and possibly into the Early Pleistocene. Although often historically considered a subspecies...
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supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It was the...
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Canidae (section Pleistocene epoch)
monophyly of this group has been established by molecular means. During the Pleistocene, the North American wolf line appeared, with Canis edwardii, clearly...
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Michigan in the United States, many people have found the remains of Pleistocene mammals, almost exclusively mammoths and mastodons. Most of these fossils...
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of the modern H. amphibius date to the Middle Pleistocene, though there are possible Early Pleistocene records. Three species of Malagasy hippopotamus...
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