Pliocene Landscape


Ideal landscape of the Pliocene Epoch in Europe. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition. Assembled in the foreground are a variety of mastodons and other grazing mammals, such as Sivatherium, as well as a giant salamander (Andrias scheuchzeri).


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