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Miocene

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Miocene
of, denoting, or formed in the fourth epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Oligocene and Pliocene epochs, which lasted for 19 million years

Miocene [′mī·ə‚sēn]
(geology)
A geologic epoch of the Tertiary period, extending from the end of the Oligocene to the beginning of the Pliocene.

Miocene 

the lower subdivision of Neocene rock strata, corresponding to the first, more ancient, half of the Neocene period of the earth’s geological history. In full cross sections Miocene layers are bounded by the Oligocene from below and the Pliocene from above. The Miocene was identified by C. Lyell in 1833.



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According to this data, Eomyops noeliae would have lived during the Aragonese period "perhaps between the Lower and Middle Miocene (around 16 million years ago)".
The animal, which they named Paracamelichnum Jumillensis, lived in the Upper Miocene period some six million years.
Among their topics are the stratigraphy and geochronology of the late Miocene Adu-Asa formation at Gona, tephrostratigraphy of the Hadar and Busidima formations, depositional environments and stratigraphic summary of the Pliocene Hadar formation, and herbivore enamel carbon isotopic composition and the environmental context of Ardipithecus at Gona.
 
 
 
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