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    The Miocene (/ˈmaɪ.əsiːn, -oʊ-/ MY-ə-seen, -⁠oh-) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.333 million years...
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  • The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise...
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    The Oligocene is preceded by the Eocene Epoch and is followed by the Miocene Epoch. The Oligocene is the third and final epoch of the Paleogene Period...
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  • The Middle Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch made up of two stages: the Langhian and Serravallian stages. The Middle Miocene is preceded by...
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  • The Early Miocene (also known as Lower Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Aquitanian and Burdigalian stages. The...
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  • Miocene, also typeset as {MIOCENE}, was an English alternative band from London. Forming in 1998, but consolidating their line-up in 2000, Miocene came...
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    thirteen major tribes. The family evolved 20 million years ago, in the early Miocene. The bovids show great variation in size and pelage colouration. Except...
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    The Miocene Ditch is one of three historic ditches along the west side of the Nome River, on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. It and the other two, the Seward...
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    Ocean) during the Oligocene and the early and middle Miocene times, but at the onset of the late Miocene epoch, the tectonically trapped sea turned into a...
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  • The Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (MMCO), sometimes referred to as the Middle Miocene Thermal Maximum (MMTM), was an interval of warm climate during...
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    the Phanerozoic. The Neogene is sub-divided into two epochs, the earlier Miocene and the later Pliocene. Some geologists assert that the Neogene cannot...
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  • The Middle Miocene Climatic Transition (MMCT) was a relatively steady period of climatic cooling that occurred around the middle of the Miocene, roughly...
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    Miocene of Germany) Cygnopterus (Middle Oligocene of Belgium – Early Miocene of France) – sometimes included in Cygnavus Megalodytes (Middle Miocene of...
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    et spp. indet. (Middle Miocene of France and Germany) – basal? Passeriformes gen. et spp. indet. (Sajóvölgyi Middle Miocene of Mátraszőlős, Hungary)...
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    deperdita - Late Miocene Europe Gazella dorcadoides - Middle Miocene Asia Gazella pilgrimi - Late Miocene Europe Gazella gaudryi - Middle Miocene Eurasia Gazella...
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  • The Miocene Arrow is a post-apocalyptic novel by Australian writer Sean McMullen. It is the middle book of the Greatwinter trilogy. In isolated pockets...
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  • Konidaris et al. (2024) describe new proboscidean material from Late Miocene localities in Romania, including fossils of Deinotherium proavum and "Mammut"...
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    early Miocene (23 mya). They had largely disappeared worldwide by the late Miocene (5 mya), with the latest recorded species at the end of the Miocene in...
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    Deer (section Miocene)
    "La faune des mammifères des sables Miocènes du synclinal d'Esvres (Val de Loire)" [The mammalian fauna of the Miocene sands of the syncline Esvres (Loire...
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    Asia, Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Genus †Sivaonyx – Asia and Africa, Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Genus †Teruelictis – Spain, Late Miocene Genus †Torolutra...
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    Hyena (category Extant Miocene first appearances)
    Late Miocene of Asia, Late Miocene of Africa and Europe) †Hyaenotherium (Late Miocene to Early Pliocene of Eurasia) †Miohyaenotherium(Late Miocene of Europe)...
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    G. egeriana, was found in early Miocene deposits in Dolnice in the Czech Republic. During the remainder of the Miocene, Gavia managed to disperse into...
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    Pleistocene) †Ochotona guizhongensis (Tibet, late Miocene) †Ochotona lagreli (China: Inner Mongolia, late Miocene to late Pliocene) †Ochotona magna (China, early...
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    Late Eocene (37.8-33.9 Mya). They did not reach Eurasia until the Late Miocene or to South America until the Late Pliocene.: 7  This cladogram shows the...
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    Palaeoaramides (Late Oligocene/Early Miocene – Late Miocene of France) Genus Rhenanorallus (Late Oligocene/Early Miocene of Mainz Basin, Germany) Genus Paraortygometra...
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    loxostylus (Early Miocene of EC USA) – includes M. atlanticus Morus olsoni (Middle Miocene of Romania) Morus lompocanus (Lompoc Late Miocene of Lompoc, USA)...
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    mustelids were dated at the end of the Oligocene to the beginning of the Miocene. Which of these forms are Mustelidae ancestors and which should be considered...
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    Chelkar-Teniz, Kazakhstan) Nectornis (Late Oligocene/Early Miocene of Central Europe – Middle Miocene of Bes-Konak, Turkey) – includes Oligocorax miocaenus...
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  • material of deinotheres belonging to the genus Prodeinotherium from the Miocene Vallès-Penedès Basin (Spain) is published by Gasamans et al. (2021). A...
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    Megalodon (category Miocene sharks)
    lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Early Pliocene epochs. O. megalodon was formerly thought to be a...
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