Miocene

(noun.) from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals.

巴里整理

• American deposits in the Miocene display a great variety of camels, giraffe camels with long necks, gazelle camels, llamas, and true camels. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It contains fragments of Miocene mastodon and rhinoceros teeth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But from the point of view of the surviving mammalian life of the Miocene, they mattered profoundly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The _Miocene_ (with living species still in a minority) was the great age of mountain building, and the general temperature was falling. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Among these we may mention _Dryopithecus_ of the Miocene Age, with a very human-looking jaw. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:卢埃林