Miocene
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The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about 23.04 to 5.333 million years ago. The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell and comes from Ancien
Subdivisions of the Miocene
The Mediterranean during the Late Miocene
Restoration of the volcanic eruption in Harney Basin, of the western US, represented by the Rattlesnake Formation
The dragon blood tree is considered a remnant of the Mio-Pliocene Laurasian subtropical forests that are now almost extinct in North Africa.
Pliocene
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The Pliocene is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58 million years ago. It is the second and most recent epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene fo
Miocene
…lit. 'less', and καινός (kainós), lit. 'new' or 'recent', and thus means "less recent", because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene followed the Oligocene and preceded the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the…
Some schemes for subdivisions of the Pliocene
The gastropod Oliva sayana, from the Pliocene of Florida
The coral Cladocora from the Pliocene of Cyprus
A gastropod and attached serpulid wormtube from the Pliocene of Cyprus