PLIOCENE

SOME LIFE FORMS PRESENT

• Mammoth
• Saber-toothed tiger
• Wooly rhinoceros
• Striaght horned bison
• Giant short face bear

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MAJOR CHANGES TO ENVIRONMENT

• The earth cooled
• It contributed major spreads of grass lands
• Long legged grazers Came To The Land
• The panamanian bridge appeared
• The Himalayas were created

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World during Pliocene

How Pliocene the name came to be

It's name comes from the Greek words (pleion meaning more) and ( ceno meaning new)

MAJOR EXTINCTIONS

SOURCES

• Palaeos.com/cenozoic/pliocene/pliocene.htm
• www.ucmp.burkeley.edu/tertiary/pilocene.php