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Definitions of pleistocene
  1. noun
    from 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
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