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The Upper Pleistocene or Late Pleistocene is the final part of the Pleistocene Epoch from about 125,000 YA to the conventional end of the Ice Age at about 10,000 YA. Jump to: navigation, search The Pleistocene Epoch is part of the geologic timescale, usually dated as 1. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ...

Tertiary sub-era Quaternary sub-era
Neogene period
Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene Holocene
Aquitanian Burdigalian Zanclean Lower  
Langhian Serravallian Piacenzian Middle
Tortonian Messinian Gelasian Upper
Cenozoic era
Paleogene Neogene

The Tertiary period was previously one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, from the end of the Cretaceous period about 65. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Quaternary Period is the geologic time period from the end of the Pliocene Epoch roughly 1. ... Neogene Period: A unit of geologic time consisting of the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs. ... The Miocene epoch is a period of time that extends from about 23 to 5. ... The Pliocene epoch (a. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Pleistocene Epoch is part of the geologic timescale, usually dated as 1. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Holocene Epoch is a geologic period that extends from the present back about 10,000 radiocarbon years. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the geologic timescale, the Aquitanian is the stage of the Miocene Epoch that is comprehended between 23 million 30 thousand and 20 million 430 thousand years ago, approximatedly. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the geologic timescale, the Burdigalian is the age of the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period of the Cenozoic era of the Phanerozoic eon that is between 20. ... The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Lower Pleistocene or Early Pleistocene is the earlier part of the Pleistocene Epoch from the beginning at about 1. ... Jump to: navigation, search Millions of Years Categories: Graphical timelines | Geology stubs ... Jump to: navigation, search Millions of Years Categories: Graphical timelines | Geology stubs ... Jump to: navigation, search In the geologic timescale, Piacenzian is an ICS stage, part of the Pliocene epoch of the Neogene period. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Middle Pleistocene is the central part of the Pleistocene Epoch from about 780,000 YA to the penultimate cold pulse at about 125,000 YA. Millions of Years Categories: Graphical timelines | Geology stubs | Pleistocene ... Jump to: navigation, search Millions of Years Categories: Graphical timelines | Geology stubs ... Jump to: navigation, search The Messinian period is the last part of the Miocene epoch. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the geologic timescale, Gelasian is an ICS stage, part of the Pliocene epoch of the Neogene period. ... The Cenozoic Era (sometimes still Caenozoic in the United Kingdom) is the most recent of the four Categories: Cenozoic ... Palaeogene (alternatively Paleogene) period is a unit of geologic time that began 65 and ended 23 million years ago. ... Neogene Period: A unit of geologic time consisting of the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs. ...



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Late Pleistocene Extinctions (667 words)
The environmental changes might have caused extinction by eliminating food sources, disrupting birth schedules, or exposing animals to climatic conditions to which they were not adapted.
The third hypothesis to account for large scale extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene is based on the idea of hyperdiseases, which are highly infectious diseases.
North America is not the only continent which experienced an extinction of this kind near the end of the Pleistocene.
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