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nounfrom two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution
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- mammoth any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
- mastodon extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
- gomphothere extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene
- struthioniformes a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward
- paleo-amerind a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch
- mastodont extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
- castoroides extinct beavers of the Pleistocene; of eastern and southern United States
- saber-toothed tiger any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene
- gomphotheriidae elephants extinct since the Pleistocene
- wolstonian glaciation the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in Britain and the deposits laid down at that time