What's the difference between pliocene and postpliocene?
Pliocene
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age.
(n.) The Pliocene period or deposits.
Example Sentences:
(1) No Monte Desert rodent has developed the specialized desert traits that have evolved in most desert rodent faunas of the world, although extinct marsupials similar to living bipedal desert rodents were present in the Monte as recently as late Pliocene.
(2) Our calculations lead to the suggestion that, if man and Old World monkeys last shared a common ancestor 30 million years ago, then man and African apes shared a common ancestor 5 million years ago, that is, in the Pliocene era.
(3) A new taxon, Australopithecus afarensis, has been created to accommodate these Pliocene hominid fossils.
(4) The genus Ginkgo is a north temperate gymnosperm taxon represented by fossilized leaves and wood from the early Jurassic through the Pliocene, and by the living species G. biloba native to eastern China.
(5) In this study, 45 sets of regression and correlation formulae, recurrent in anthropological and medico-legal literature, are applied to long bones of the Pliocene hominid A.L.288-1 ('Lucy'), in order to assess which, if any, could be considered suitable for stature reconstruction in 'gracile' australopithecines.
(6) Large amounts of free amino acids and peptides persist through the Pliocene, considerable quantities of peptide have been recovered from the Miocene specimens, and even the oldest fossils have retained analyzable amounts of all three fractions.
(7) They focused on a period called the Pliocene, some five to three million years ago, when temperatures were similar to those expected in the coming centuries.
(8) Predictions from these data, based on a molecular clock assumption for the mtDNA control region, are also consistent with fossil evidence that suggests that species of Oncorhynchus could be as old as the Middle Pliocene and would have thus given rise to the extant Pacific salmon prior to about 5 or 6 million years ago.
(9) This study identifies an archaic feature, previously recognised in Pliocene and earlier Pleistocene innominates, in the Broken Hill innominate E. 719.
(10) This residue resembles, in both amount and composition, the material previously recovered from fossil oyster shells deposited before the Pliocene era.
(11) A large sample of Pliocene fossil hominid remains has been recovered from the African sites of Hadar in Ethiopia and Laetolil in Tanzania.
(12) The hominid tracks in Tuff 7 at Site G in the Garusi River Valley demonstrate bipedality at a mid-Pliocene datum.
(13) The material includes mandibles and teeth derived from reliably-dated deposits of Pliocene age.
(14) The specimens were found in outcrops at present considered of Pliocene Age.
(15) Several endemic rodent faunas, indicating insular conditions, have been reported from the southern edge of the western European continent from the middle Miocene up to the Pliocene.
(16) Three main periods of time show a high rate of origination: the late Burdigalian (17.5 Ma BP), the early Vallesian (11.5-11 Ma BP) and the early Pliocene (4.2-3.8 Ma BP).
(17) We report here on early hominid facial diversity, as part of a more extensive morphometric survey of cranial variability in Pliocene and early Pleistocene Hominidae.
(18) The supposed "nonhuman anthropoid"-type femur head articular surface described for the Pliocene hominid specimen A.L.288-1 ("Lucy") by Stern and Susman in 1983 is present in significant numbers of modern human femora.
(19) The Earth has not experienced a global temperature more than 2C higher than pre-industrial since the Pliocene epoch 3m years ago, when the polar ice caps were much smaller and sea levels were about 20 metres higher than today.
(20) These young colonizing faunas, in the Holarctic Region, were influenced by a common history during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.
Postpliocene
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the period immediately following the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.