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The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch, which lasted from 11.63 Ma ( million years ago ) to 5.333 Ma.
The Miocene (/ ˈ m aɪ. ə s iː n,-oʊ-/ MY-ə-seen, -oh-) [6] [7] is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words μείων (meíōn, "less") and καινός (kainós, "new") [8] [9] and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates ...
Mid-Late Miocene [123] Aguada Limestone: Early-Late Miocene [124] Quebradillas Limestone: Middle Miocene [125] Cibao Formation: Aquitanian-Burdigalian [126] Lares Limestone: Late Oligocene-Early Miocene [127] Guayanilla Formation: Late Oligocene [128] Guatemala Group: Cibao Marl: Late Oligocene [129] Oligocene [130] Río Guatemala Group: San ...
Late Miocene (Huayquerian) South America: Argentina: Mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, bivalves, foraminifera, ichnofossils and flora: Jaguel Formation: Late Cretaceous/Early Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian) South America: Argentina: Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest: La Matilde Formation: Middle to Late Jurassic (Bathonian – Oxfordian) South ...
After early Miocene submarine volcanic eruptions created a seamount, subaerial volcanic activity at Gran Canaria occurred in three phases: shield stage (middle- and late-Miocene, 14.5 to 8.5 Ma), erosional stage (late Miocene, 8.5 to 5.3 Ma) and rejuvenated stage (Pliocene to Quaternary, 5.3 Ma to present). [82]
[113] [112] [111] [110] Borhyaenids last occur in the late Miocene, about 4 Ma before the first appearance of canids or felids in South America. [106] Thylacosmilids last occur about 3 Ma ago and appear to be rarer at pre-GABI Pliocene sites than Miocene ones.
During the Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene, a massive basaltic volcanic activity occurred. After the emission of alkali basalts during the Late Miocene, major volcanic activity occurred during the Late Pliocene, in which large volumes of tholeiitic basalts were emitted and the foredeep north of the Hyblean foreland collapsed.
The Trachilos footprints are possibly tetrapod footprints which show hominin-like characteristics from the late Miocene on the western Crete, close to the village of Trachilos, west of Kissamos, in the Chania Prefecture. [1] Researchers describe the tracks as representing at least one apparent bipedal [1] hominin or an unknown primate.