25 मिलियन से 13 मिलियन साल पहले; चराई स्तनधारियों की उपस्थिति

Noun:

अल्पनुतन, मध्यनव,

miocene's Usage Examples:

In the Old World the boreal zone is almost sharply cut off and afforded no means of escape for the Miocene vegetation when the climate became more severe.

Torreya, now confined to North America and Japan, still lingered,- as did Ocotea, now profusely developed in the tropics, but in north temperate regions only existing in the Canaries: the evergreen oaks, so characteristic of the Miocene, were reduced to the existing Quercus hex.

This, as will be explained, did not take place to anything like the same extent in North America, the vegetation of which still preserves a more Miocene facies.

This was accompanied in Europe by a drastic weeding out of Miocene types, ultimately leaving the flora pretty much as it now exists.

70 contained Sequoia, planes, maples and magnolias, and closely agrees with the Miocene flora of central Europe.

It is found in flat rolled pieces, irregularly distributed through a blue clay probably of Miocene age.

It occurs in Miocene deposits and is also found washed up by the sea near Catania.

The Miocene and Pliocene are absent.

In Tertiary times the Central Plateau was the theatre of great volcanic activity from the Miocene, to the Pleistocene periods, and many of the volcanoes remain as nearly perfect cones to the present day.

The most widely spread of the sedimentary beds belong to the Miocene period.'

miocene's Meaning':

from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals