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... No new chronofauna was established, but a major immigration episode coincided with the final late Hemphillian extinctions. Floristic changes at the end of the Miocene clearly record the expansion of grasslands in midcontinental and western North America.
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  • immigration episode
  • land mammal
  • major immigration
  • land mammals
  • midcontinental north

  • late pliocene
  • late hemphillian
  • ungulate fauna
  • arid climate


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