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The Pliocene Epoch animals of Africa — during the Pliocene epoch of the Neogene Period in Africa. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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Overberg, South Africa Fossil evidence and rock art suggests that the species was more broadly spread around southern Africa in the Pleistocene and early Holocene, but its range contracted because of climate-driven vegetation change until it was reduced to just 4300 km 2 east of Cape Town. It finally disappeared around 1800 CE as a result of ...
c. 23.04 Ma – Neogene Period and Miocene epoch begin; c. 22 Ma – First hyenas. c. 20 Ma – Giraffes and giant anteaters evolve. c. 18–12 Ma – estimated age of the Hominidae/Hylobatidae (great apes vs. gibbons) split. c. 16 Ma – The hippopotamus evolves. c. 15 Ma – First mastodons, bovids, and kangaroos. Australian megafauna diversify.
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[10]: 17 However, the picture is rapidly improving, since Central Asia has some of the world's best records of Neogene mammals. [5]: 11 In Africa, sequences of fossils (including those of primates) have been determined and some land mammal ages designated, but not yet formally defined. [10]: 11
Ancestors of the Khoisan may have expanded from East Africa or Central Africa into Southern Africa before 150,000 BP, possibly as early as before 260,000 BP. [2] [3] Due to their early expansion and separation, ancestors of the Khoisan may have been the largest population among anatomically modern humans, from their early separation before 150,000 BP until the Out of Africa migration in 70,000 BP.