Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The youngest of two subdivisions of the Tertiary Period, from 23 to 1.8 million years ago, including the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Newborn; later developed: an epithet sometimes applied to the later Tertiary as distinguishing it from the older Tertiary, which latter would embrace the divisions now denominated Eocene and Oligocene.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology Of a
geologic period within theCenozoic era ; comprises theMiocene ,Pliocene ,Pleistocene andHolocene epochs from about 26 million years ago to the present. - proper noun geology The Neogene period.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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"The Neogene is a geologic period and system starting 23.03 ± 0.05 million years ago and lasting either until today or ending 2.588 million years ago with ..."
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"Neogene" of Hörnes (1853) included the Miocene and Pliocene periods;
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Nuralagus rex lived in the Late Neogene, which ended about 2.5m years ago, and was 10 times the size of extant rabbits, weighing an estimated average of 12 kg.
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Late Neogene paleoclimates and paleoceanography in the Iceland-Norwegian sea: evidence from the Iceland and Voring Plateaus.
Variability in hydrographic properties and currents in the Arctic 2009
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Refined age of the Late Neogene terror bird (Titanis) from Florida and Texas using rare earth elements.
Terror birds Darren Naish 2006
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Furthermore, recent discoveries from the Oligocene and Miocene of Queensland have revealed a fossil history for Mekosuchus extending well back, on mainland Australia, into the Neogene (Willis 1997).
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The modern plateau is a result of combination of the Neogene and Quaternary orogenesis with erosion and deflation.
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Fossil seals from late Neogene deposits in South America: a new pinniped (Carnivora, Mammalia) assemblage from Chile.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Morphological structural movements during the Neogene-Quaternary period, along with the effects during the Quaternary partial valley glaciation, has determined the relief formations.
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Neogene marine transgressions, palaeogeography and biogeographic transitions on the Thai-Malay Peninsula.
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