The Pliocene Epoch 5 to 1.8 mya The picture below shows a modern herd of zebra grazing on an African savanna. Grazing mammals, such as members of the perissodactyl and artiodactyls diversified in the Miocene and Pliocene as grasslands and savanna spread across most continents. The Pliocene was a time of global cooling after the warmer Miocene. The cooling and drying of the global environment may ...

A quick background to the Pliocene Jonathan Adams, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory The Pliocene (5.4 - 2.4 million years ago) is the uppermost subdivision of the long Tertiary period which began 64 million years ago; it represents the final stages of a global cooling trend that led up to the Quaternary ice ages. Generally, the Pliocene world was rather warmer than ...

Ahl al Oughlam, un gisement de Vertes du Pliocene final du Maroc ...

Though a relatively short epoch, tremendous events occurred during the Pliocene (Plio - more; cene - recent), such as the development of ice caps, the drying of the Mediterranean, and the joining of the Americas. &nbsp Biogeographically, this epoch is characterized by the dramatic modernization of mammals. &nbsp All of the presently existing orders and families are known from the Pliocene, as ...