1. miocene - Noun
2. miocene - Adjective
3. Miocene - Proper noun
Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary.
The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAccording to DNA studies, the ancestor of the hammerheads probably lived in the Miocene epoch about 20 million years ago. Source: Internet
A fossil toad (specimen UCMP 41159) from the La Venta fauna of the late Miocene of Colombia is indistinguishable from modern cane toads from northern South America. Source: Internet
A large question remains as to why there was a progressive decline in hypercarnivorous carnivoramorphans during the late Oligocene/early Miocene. Source: Internet
Berendsen and Stouthamer (2001) In the Miocene period, the watershed of the Rhine reached south, only to the Eifel and Westerwald hills, about convert north of the Alps. Source: Internet
Although there no records from the Miocene in the Atlantic, a re-examination of the North Carolina material indicated that the diversity of puffins in the early Pliocene was as great in the Atlantic as it is in the Pacific today. Source: Internet
A primitive cephalomyid hystricognath rodent from the early Miocene of northern Patagonia, Argentina. Source: Internet