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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
- wolstonian glaciation the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in Britain and the deposits laid down at that time
- paleo-indian a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch
- order struthioniformes a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward
- family gomphotheriidae elephants extinct since the Pleistocene
- sabertooth any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene
- ground sloth gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
- megathere gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
- riss glaciation the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps and the deposits laid down at that time