Crossword-Solution: MIOCENE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Miocene | a. | Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary. |
| Miocene | n. | The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “MIOCENE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Epoch that produced grazing animals | 1 answer |
| of, denoting, or formed in the fourth epoch of the Tertiary period | 1 answer |
| When mammals appeared | 1 answer |
| Period of the Age of Mammals. | 1 answer |
| Long-ago epoch | 1 answer |
| Geological epoch when mastodons appeared | 1 answer |
| Epoch with big birds | 1 answer |
| Epoch when the Mediterranean Sea nearly dried up | 1 answer |
| Epoch when primitive giraffes and deer appeared | 1 answer |
| Epoch in which grazing mammals became widespread | 1 answer |
| Division of the tertiary system. | 1 answer |
| A geological epoch | 1 answer |
| A Tertiary epoch | 1 answer |
| Tertiary epoch | 2 answers |
| Epoch of the Tertiary Period | 3 answers |
| Geological epoch. | 6 answers |
| Geological period | 21 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MIOCENE (5)
The acceptance of this conclusion was also seen in the more recent work of Alfred Russel Wallace, who, though very cautious and conservative, placed the origin of man not only in the Tertiary period, but in an earlier stage of it than most had dared assign--even in the Miocene.
Nay, if anyone should ask--And why not 400,000 years ago, on Miocene continents long sunk beneath the Tropic sea? I for one have no rejoinder save--We have no proofs as yet.
What upstarts of yesterday are the Pharaohs in comparison with the men who survived the tragedy of the glacial period! The ancient history of man--only now beginning to be studied--dates from the Pliocene or Miocene period; the modern history, as we know it, embraces that brief space of time that has elapsed since the earliest Egyptian and Babylonian records were made.
The natural line of descent would seem to be through the following genera: Orohippus, of the eocene; Miohippus and Anchitherium, of the miocene; Anchippus, Hipparion, Protohippus, Phohippus, of the pliocene; and Equus, quaternary and recent.
After further careful analysis of the anatomical characters Darwin reaches the conclusion that the New World monkeys (Platyrrhine) may be excluded from the genealogical tree altogether, but that man is an offshoot from the Old World monkeys (Catarrhine) whose progenitors existed as far back as the Miocene period.
Quotes with MIOCENE (1)
It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period. Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery. A…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1947–2022).