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 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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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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Panthera spelaea (redirect from Late Pleistocene European cave lion)
fossilis) in Eurasia date to around 700,000 years ago (with possible late Early Pleistocene records). It is closely related and probably ancestral to the American...
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These proposed ages are unofficially termed the Middle Pleistocene and Late Pleistocene respectively. The Chibanian provisionally spans time from 773 ka to...
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to modern gray wolf populations. Genetic analysis of the remains of Late Pleistocene wolves suggest that across their range populations of wolves maintained...
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subspecies of coyote that lived in western North America during the Late Pleistocene era. Most remains of the subspecies were found in southern California...
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Last Glacial Maximum (redirect from Late Glacial Maximum)
October 2024 – via Wiley Online Library. Fried, Alan W. (April 1993). "Late Pleistocene river morphological change, southeastern Australia: the conundrum of...
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Chibanian (redirect from Middle Pleistocene age)
three lowest ages of the Pleistocene, the Gelasian, Calabrian and Chibanian have been officially defined, the Late Pleistocene has yet to be formally defined...
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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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modern grey wolf being the dog's nearest living relative. An extinct Late Pleistocene wolf may have been the ancestor of the dog. The dog is a wolf-like...
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Buffetaut, Eric; Angst, Delphine (2021). "A Giant Ostrich from the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Formation of North China, with a Review of the Fossil Ostriches...
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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...
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permafrost layer of the Arctic and Subarctic. Most went extinct during the Late Pleistocene extinctions while some are still extant today. They have been listed...
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by Andrei L. Chepalyga for the Late Quaternary sea level rise of the Black Sea. The hypothesis for a Late Pleistocene Great Flood argues that brackish...
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(Ukraine and Russian Plain, Pleistocene) †Ochotona spelaeus (Ukraine, late Pleistocene) †Ochotona tedfordi (China: Yushe Basin, late Miocene) †Ochotona cf....
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becoming increasingly covered by an ice sheet in late Pliocene (2.9-2.58 Ma ago) During the Pleistocene Epoch (starting 2.58 Ma ago), the Quaternary glaciation...
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Cave wolf (category Pleistocene mammals of Europe)
mammoth steppe-adapted white wolf that lived during the Middle Pleistocene to the Late Pleistocene. It inhabited Europe, where its remains have been found in...
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However, they had larger molars which are reminiscent of Middle to Late Pleistocene archaic humans and australopithecines. Denisovans apparently interbred...
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Homotherium (category Pleistocene carnivorans)
the Late Pleistocene being similar to the variation found at the large sample for individuals from the Incarcal locality from the Early Pleistocene of...
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Arctodus (category Pleistocene bears)
the Early Pleistocene of the eastern United States, whereas A. simus had a broader range, with most finds being from the Late Pleistocene of the United...
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Europe, but became extinct in the region at around the end of the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene. The leopard is adapted to a variety of habitats ranging...
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Bison antiquus (category Pleistocene Artiodactyla)
an extinct species of bison that lived in North America during the Late Pleistocene from over 60,000 years ago until around 10,000 years ago. Bison antiquus...
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Palaeoloxodon namadicus (category Pleistocene proboscideans)
extinct species of prehistoric elephant known from the Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent, and possibly also elsewhere in...
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including various species of dwarf elephants that evolved during the Pleistocene epoch, as well as more ancient examples, such as the dinosaurs Europasaurus...
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There was a major extinction of large mammals globally during the Late Pleistocene Epoch. Many forms such as sabre-toothed cats, mammoths, mastodons,...
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indicative of the presence of xerophyte scrubs in central Chile during the Late Pleistocene, similar to the present-day environment of the studied area. A study...
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Baker, V.R., Benito, G., and Rudoy, A.N., 1993. Paleo-hydrology of late Pleistocene superflooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia: Science, 259, p. 348–350....
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North America, but became extinct in the region at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 years ago. The term tapir comes from the Portuguese-language...
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Venezuelan Andes (section Late Pleistocene glaciation)
Geological Survey (USGS P 1386-I). Schubert, C.; Valastro, S. (1974). "Late Pleistocene glaciation of Páramo de La Culata, north-central Venezuelan Andes"...
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