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I much like the term post-Pliocene, and will use it in my present paper several times.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Elasmothe�rium, an extinct genus of Mammalia, found in the post-Pliocene strata of Europe, comprising animals of great size allied to the rhinoceros, and having probably one large horn and a smaller nasal horn.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

It is sometimes used in a wider sense to denote all post-Pliocene sands, gravels, and clays, such as the superficial deposits shown on the 'drift' maps of the Geological Survey.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various