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nounfrom 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals
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- mastodon extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
- dryopithecus rudapithecus hungaricus fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene
- gomphothere extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene
- false saber-toothed tiger North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon
- mastodont extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
- dryopithecus genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene
- genus dryopithecus genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene
- rudapithecus fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene
- genus proconsul genus of extinct primitive African primates of the Miocene epoch; sometimes considered a subgenus of Dryopithecus