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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
- 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
- genus castoroides extinct beavers of the Pleistocene; of eastern and southern United States
- solo man early man of late Pleistocene; skull resembles that of Neanderthal man but with smaller cranial capacity; found in Java
- paleo-american a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch
- homo soloensis extinct primitive hominid of late Pleistocene; Java; formerly Javanthropus
- mylodon large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America