They indicate that the Pliocene might be the best analog for the world in the not-too-distant future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

The large horse behind me is a 3 million year old Equus simplicidens from the Pliocene, which is very similar to the modern horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pandas and Man at Harvard - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

This was probably not far from the close of the Pliocene Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Present elevations were reached during the Pliocene-Pleistocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cauca Valley montane forests] Reference

Probably beginning in the late Pliocene and ending in the Ice Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference

The age of these gravels is, therefore, pronounced to be Pliocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Germany, flourished no farther north than Italy during the Pliocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

"Neogene" of Hörnes (1853) included the Miocene and Pliocene periods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

This explains why there were no good golf courses in the Pliocene epoch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best: Extinct Animals, From an Elephant Bird to a 10-Foot-Long, Four-Eyed Spider] Reference

For the birds, the Miocene marked the end; for the mammals the Pliocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

We must now learn what we can of the Pliocene Age, the last division of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

With the termination of the Pliocene Age we find ourselves on firmer ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Pliocene man in California must have been in the Neolithic stage of culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

California in Pliocene times or not, he continued to inhabit the land to the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Though usually held to be Pliocene, some careful observers consider it to be of a later age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

We can see how well this agrees with the changes of climate at the close of the Pliocene Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The Pliocene species are the more recent; such is, in fact, the meaning of the term in geology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference

Inarticulate or molluscan life is seen in a sub-fossil condition in the Post Pliocene clays of Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference

A portion of these, passing over into California, would come in contact with the descendants of Pliocene man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

< 56 > Still, during the entire length of the Pliocene Age, Europe certainly offered an inviting home for man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

So we may conclude that rafts of ice came floating down the North Sea during the closing period of the Pliocene Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The Sarmatian beds are also involved in the folds, indicating that the folding was not completed till Pliocene times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

We do not now refer to the evidence of man's existence in the Miocene and Pliocene, treated of in the preceding chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The climate probably passed from a tropical one, in early Tertiary times, to a milder or temperate one in Pliocene times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

"Pottery," says he, "was unknown in the Pleistocene Age, < 70 > and therefore is unlikely to have been found in the Pliocene.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Some hold that the proof of his existence here in Pliocene times is far more satisfactory than any evidence of his presence in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The great geographical changes that took place near the close of the Pliocene would cut off the primitive Californians from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The map of Europe, at the close of Pliocene times and the commencement of the Glacial Age, is of interest to us in several ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Pliocene man was, to judge by his works in stone and shell, as far advanced as his descendants were at the time of the discovery of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Remember that old idea -- from the early Pliocene Age -- about keeping money for three to six months 'worth of expenses in the bank?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Long On The Big Three] Reference

The plants are pronounced by competent authority < 6 > to be Pliocene, totally distinct from any specimens now growing in California.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Prof. Whitney has brought to the attention of the scientific world what he considers ample evidence of the presence of Pliocene man in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

< 68 > Now these bones have been found in several localities, always in Pliocene deposits, which formed the shores of the Pliocene sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

This is held to prove the existence of Pliocene man by several eminent observers, amongst others Prof. Cocchi, of Italy, and Forsyth Major.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

According to our present knowledge, man might have been living in the Miocene Age, and with a higher degree of probability in the Pliocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference