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American mastodon (Mammut americanum). Mastodons diversified greatly during the Pliocene Epoch. Lateral view of “Mrs. Ples,” a 2.7-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus skull found in 1947 at Sterkfontein, South Africa, by anthropologist Robert Broom and originally categorized as Plesianthropus transvaalensis. seafloor spreading geologic time Neogene Period in geologic time
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American mastodon (Mammut americanum). Mastodons diversified greatly during the Pliocene Epoch.
Lateral view of “Mrs. Ples,” a 2.7-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus skull found in 1947 at Sterkfontein, South Africa, by anthropologist Robert Broom and originally categorized as Plesianthropus transvaalensis.
seafloor spreading
geologic time
Neogene Period in geologic time
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Maurice-Irénée-Marie Gignoux
French geologist