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Neogene
[ nee-uh-jeen ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to an interval of time corresponding to the Miocene and Pliocene epochs and accorded the status of a period when the Tertiary is considered an era. Compare Paleogene.
noun
- the Neogene Period or System.
Neogene
/ ˈԾːəˌː /
adjective
- of, denoting, or formed during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs
noun
- the Neogenethe Neogene period or system
Neogene
/ ŧ′ō-ŧ′ /
- The youngest of two subdivisions of the Tertiary Period, including the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs.
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It was a geologic table: Triassic and Neogene.
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In 2004, the Quaternary period was unceremoniously jettisoned and the preceding period, the Neogene, extended to cover its 1.8m years.
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Having now “lost” millions of years, Neogene scientists were incandescent.
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In some books, too, you will find the tertiary and quaternary taken out and replaced by periods of different lengths called the Palaeogene and Neogene.
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Jernvall, J. & Fortelius, M. Common mammals drive the evolutionary increase of hypsodonty in the Neogene.
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