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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.
Dryopithecus is a genus of extinct great apes from the middle–late Miocene boundary of Europe 12.5 to 11.1 million years ago (mya). Since its discovery in 1856, the genus has been subject to taxonomic turmoil, with numerous new species being described from single remains based on minute differences amongst each other, and the fragmentary nature of the holotype specimen makes differentiating ...
Lufengpithecus (lit. ' Lufeng ape ') is an extinct genus of ape, known from the Late Miocene of East Asia.It is known from thousands of dental remains and a few skulls and probably weighed about 50 kg (110 lb). [1]
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 ...
The Tortonian is in the geologic time scale an age or stage of the late Miocene that spans the time between 11.608 ± 0.005 Ma and 7.246 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago) [citation needed]. It follows the Serravallian and is followed by the Messinian .
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 ...
Graecopithecus is an extinct genus of hominid that lived in southeast Europe during the late Miocene around 7.2 million years ago. Originally identified by a single lower jawbone bearing teeth found in Pyrgos Vasilissis, Athens, Greece, in 1944, [1] other teeth were discovered from Azmaka quarry in Bulgaria in 2012. [2]
Their basal position consists of the late Miocene representatives of northern South America. [8] In principle, a revision for the entire family is urged, since many of the higher taxonomic units lack a formal diagnosis. [9] Below is a phylogenetic tree of the Mylodontinae, based on the work of Boscaini and colleagues (2019). [1]