pleistocene
Speech parts
1. pleistocene - Noun
2. pleistocene - Adjective
3. Pleistocene - Proper noun
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man.
The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
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Along with many other members of a group of unusual species collectively called the " Australian megafauna ", it existed from approximately 1.6 million years ago until extinction some 46,000 years ago citation (through most of the Pleistocene epoch ).
As the Pleistocene drew to a close, a major extinction wiped out much of the world's megafauna, including some of the hominid species, such as Neanderthals.
Antarctica was ice-bound throughout the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene.
Antarctica was ice-bound throughout the Pleistocene as well as the preceding Pliocene.
Anatomically modern humans have inhabited the regions around modern Laos since the late Pleistocene to early Holocene eras.
And, as we now know, that is what did happen over large areas of North America from the Eocene to the Pleistocene : the ultimate causative agent was global temperature reduction (see Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum ).