Pleiocene
Britishadjective
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It is like thinking of a parliament in the Pleiocene, or of a court-house on the Grand Banks.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
Of a still newer date is the Norwich Crag, a fluvio-marine deposit of the Pleiocene epoch, containing a mixture of marine, fluviatile, and land 143 shells, of which 90 per cent. or more are recent.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
At Doveholes the Pleiocene Mastodon has been reported.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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