Definition of Zanclean. Meaning of Zanclean. Synonyms of Zanclean

- The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma (million years...
- The Zanclean flood or Zanclean deluge is theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago. This flooding ended the Messinian salinity...
- years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago. The Mediterranean Sea covers an area...
- was first described by Jim Bourdon in 1999, as a specimen dated to the Zanclean (early Pliocene). The species is known from its distinctive fossilized...
- diverged from other Falco around the Miocene–Pliocene boundary (Messinian to Zanclean, or about 7–3.5 mya). The most basal "true" kestrels are three species...
- Piacenzian (3.60–2.58 Ma) Zanclean (5.33–3.60 Ma) The Piacenzian is sometimes referred to as the Late Pliocene, whereas the Zanclean is referred to as the...
- opened, and the Mediterranean refilled. That event is referred to as the "Zanclean flood". Also during the early Miocene (specifically the Aquitanian and...
- Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma (million years ago). It ended with the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin. Sediment samples from below...
- thresher shark, that lived in the Eocene and Pliocene, in Bartonian to Zanclean. There were at least two subspecies, A. latidens alabamensis, and A. latidens...
- Formation, a marine sedimentary unit of Lower Pliocene (Zanclean) age, which were deposited after the Zanclean flood, in which the Mediterranean refilled after...