Neogene

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Neogene

the upper part of the TERTIARY PERIOD including the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene epochs.
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Dr McLaren's research focuses on the last 20 million years, the Neogene period, throughout the Murray Basin which contains 'Lake Bungunnin', a 50,000 square kilometre paleo-megalake.
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The field of paleontology has made extraordinary discoveries and advancements with respect to the mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of the Neogene period in Asia.
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Colleagues at the University of Minnesota identified the wood from the deposit, and pollen analysis at a commercial laboratory in Calgary, Alberta revealed that the trees lived approximately 2 to 8 million years ago, during the Neogene Period.
Mummified forest in Canada yields climate clues
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