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Miocene epoch

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Noun1.Miocene epoch - from 25 million to 13 million years agoMiocene epoch - from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals
Tertiary, Tertiary period - from 63 million to 2 million years ago


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The bones and teeth-remains of small mammals that lived in the early Miocene Epoch, some 18 to 20 million years ago-are the first small mammal fossils of that age to be found in Egypt.
The whole environment was totally different in a time known as the Late Miocene epoch, about 6-8 million years ago, according to recent discoveries in the Western Region.
It's also fitting that what probably would have qualified as the state tree back in its day - which, by the way, was the Oligocene and Miocene epochs, dating from about 35 million to 5 million years ago - should be named the state fossil now.
 
 
 
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