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  2. Late Pleistocene - Wikipedia

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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 perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently defined as the time between c. 129,000 and c ...

  3. Late Pleistocene extinctions - Wikipedia

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    The Late Pleistocene saw the extinction of many mammals weighing more than 40 kilograms (88 lb), including around 80% of mammals over 1 tonne. The proportion of megafauna extinctions is progressively larger the further the human migratory distance from Africa, with the highest extinction rates in Australia, and North and South America. [11]

  4. List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species - Wikipedia

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    Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded history, specifically before they could be studied alive by ornithological science. They had died out before the period of global scientific exploration that started in the late 15th ...

  5. Pleistocene - Wikipedia

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    The Pleistocene (/ ˈ p l aɪ s t ə ˌ s iː n,-s t oʊ-/ PLY-stə-seen, -⁠stoh-; [4] [5] referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from c. 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

  6. Quaternary - Wikipedia

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    There was a major extinction of large mammals globally during the Late Pleistocene Epoch. [19] Many forms such as sabre-toothed cats, mammoths, mastodons, glyptodonts, etc., became extinct worldwide. Others, including horses, camels and American cheetahs became extinct in North America. [20] [21]

  7. Quaternary glaciation - Wikipedia

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    Glaciation has been a rare event in Earth's history, [44] but there is evidence of widespread glaciation during the late Paleozoic Era (300 to 200 Ma) and the late Precambrian (i.e., the Neoproterozoic Era, 800 to 600 Ma). [45] Before the current ice age, which began 2 to 3 Ma, Earth's climate was typically mild and uniform for long periods of ...

  8. Megatherium - Wikipedia

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    During the Late Pleistocene, six species of Megatherium were present in South America, including M. americanum in the Pampas and adjacent regions, and the 5 species of Pseudomegatherium in the vicinity of the Andes. [31] The youngest unambiguous dates for Megatherium are from the end of the Late Pleistocene.

  9. Palaeoloxodon namadicus - Wikipedia

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    Palaeoloxodon namadicus is an extinct species of prehistoric elephant known from the Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent, and possibly also elsewhere in Asia. The species grew larger than any living elephant, and some authors have suggested it to have been the largest known land mammal based on extrapolation from ...