A Pliocene Insect Deposit in Texas by F. M. Carpenter

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ENSO Impacts on Lomas Formation in South Coastal Peru: Implications for the Pliocene? by Timothy Paul Eichler, Ana C. Londoño

“…Since lomas may represent fragments of a continuous vegetation belt that existed during the Pliocene, a permanent El Niño favoring vigorous vegetation production along the south Peruvian coast due to incursions of fog with high precipitable water may have occurred in this period. …”
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Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud by Dominique Gommery, Laura Bento Da Costa

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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico. by Kleyton M Cantalice, Hugo E Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba, Underwater Archaeological Atlas project

“…This system is developed on a great Late Miocene to Early Pliocene carbonate platform belonging to the Carrillo Puerto Formation. …”
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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico by Kleyton M. Cantalice, Hugo E. Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba

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Elliptical Fourier analysis of molar outlines in Late Pliocene Parapapio whitei from Makapansgat Limeworks, South Africa by Alexander C. Kim, Frank L’Engle Williams

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The Main Pelagonian Detachment (MPD): extensional reactivation of the frontal thrust of the Internal Zones of the Hellenides (Greece) by Chanier, Frank, Ferrière, Jacky, Averbuch, Olivier, Graveleau, Fabien, Caroir, Fabien, Gaullier, Virginie, Watremez, Louise

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Impact of the Late Miocene Cooling on the loss of coral reefs in the Central Indo-Pacific by B. F. Petrick, L. Reuning, M. Pfeiffer, G. Auer, L. Schwark

“…This “Pliocene Reef Gap” has often been ascribed to non-climatic factors. …”
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East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability in the central Transantarctic Mountains since the mid Miocene by G. R. M. Bromley, G. R. M. Bromley, G. Balco, G. Balco, M. S. Jackson, A. Balter-Kennedy, A. Balter-Kennedy, H. Thomas

“…At face value, the existing TAM moraine record does not exhibit a clear signature of the mid-Pliocene Warm Period, thus precluding a definitive verdict on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet's response to this event. …”
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Biogeographic Insights Into the Late Miocene Diversification of the Giant Deep‐Ocean Amphipod Eurythenes by Carolina E. González, Johanna N. J. Weston, Reinaldo Rivera, Marcelo Oliva, Rubén Escribano, Osvaldo Ulloa

“…The late Miocene to the Pliocene (~23–2.58 Ma) is a period that was marked by significant geological, climatic, and oceanographic changes. …”
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REE Geochemistry of Euphrates River, Turkey by Leyla Kalender, Gamze Aytimur

“…The lithological units observed from the bottom to the top are Permo-Triassic Keban Metamorphites, Late Cretaceous Kömürhan Ophiolites, Upper Cretaceous Elazığ Magmatic Complex, Middle Eocene Maden Complex and Kırkgeçit Formation, Upper Pliocene and Lower Eocene Seske Formation and Upper Miocene, Pliocene Karabakır and Çaybağı Formations, Palu Formation, and Holocene Euphrates River sediments. …”
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Late Cenozoic Stress State in Gulf of Güllük and Surroundings, SW Anatolia by Erdem Gündoğdu, Suha Ozden, Alper Demirci

“…In this study, the tectonic regime and stress states from the Pliocene to the present day were determined. Mesoscopic fault plane data were collected from outcrops at 19 different stations in the region between the Gulf of Güllük and Milas. …”
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X-Ray Computed Tomography Analysis of Sajau Coal, Berau Basin, Indonesia: 3D Imaging of Cleat and Microcleat Characteristics by Ahmad Helman Hamdani

“…The Pliocene Sajau coals of the Berau Basin area have a moderately to highly developed cleat system. …”
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Bolt’s Farm Cave System dans le Cradle of Humankind (Afrique du Sud) : un exemple d’approche multidisciplinaire dans l’étude des sites à primates fossiles by Dominique Gommery, Frank Sénégas, Lazarus Kgasi, Nonhlanhla Vilakazi, Brian Kuhn, James Brink, Martin Pickford, Andy IR Herries, John Hancox, Thibaud Saos, Loïc Ségalen, Julie Aufort, John Francis Thackeray

“…Waypoint 160 at BFCS yielded the oldest remains of nonhuman primates in the Cradle of Humankind which are dated to the Pliocene. For more information about the geological and palaeoenvironmental context, excavations were conducted since 2011 in some loci based on the surveys carried out by members of HRU. …”
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Quaternary Large Mammals from the Granada Geopark: A Magnificent Record with Examples of Geoconservation. by Alfonso Arribas Herrera, Guiomar Garrido Álvarez, José Antonio Garrido García, Francisco Juan García Tortosa, Cristobal Medialdea Pérez

“…Granada Geopark, covering almost all of the Guadix-Baza basin, contains an exceptional and near-continuous fossil record of the evolution of Pliocene to middle Pleistocene land mammals (5–0.5 Ma). …”
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Seismic refraction investigation of the shallow bedrock in New Qena City, Eastern Desert, Egypt by Ahmed M. Abdelgowad, Assem E. El-Haddad, Mohamed I. Aglan, Ahmed Hamed

“…The results revealed a four-layered subsurface, with the bedrock represented by the mudstone unit of the Pliocene Durri Formation. This layer is located at a shallow depth and exhibits relatively low velocities as well as lateral velocity variations. …”
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Role of Chromosome Changes in Evolution and Diversity by Kornsorn Srikulnath, Watcharaporn Thapana, Narongrit Muangmai

“…This was followed by a trans-Atlantic dispersion to the New World between 4~8 MYA in the Pliocene. The chromosomes provided a better understanding of crocodilian evolution and diversity, which will be useful for further study of the genome evolution in Crocodylia.…”
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Surface deformation of the 26 January 2021 earthquake in the Sinjar – Hasakah Area, N Iraq and NE Syria, from Sentinel‑1A InSAR images by Jamal A.H. Doski

“…This fault is a NW-trending, steeply dipping seismically active dextral strike-slip basement fault that formed during the Late Pliocene structural inversion. It extends over 120 km from the vicinity of Hasakah city in the northwest into the epicentral area in the southeast, traversing the boundary between the Sinjar and Abd El Aziz uplifts. …”
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Feeding strategies and associated cognitive capacities among Plio-Pleistocene hominins: toward new perspectives using the ventromedial prefrontal cortex by Margot Louail

“…We suggested that the capacity to switch foraging behaviors using memorized information may have been particularly favored among hominins of the Late Pliocene and especially Early Pleistocene, a period marked by several time intervals of increased climatic instability. …”
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Re-evaluation of mastodon material from Oregon and Washington, USA, Alberta, Canada, and Hidalgo and Jalisco, Mexico by Alton C. Dooley Jr, Chris Widga, Brittney E. Stoneburg, Christopher Jass, Victor M. Bravo-Cuevas, Andrew Boehm, Eric Scott, Andrew T. McDonald, Mark Volmut

“…The Alberta specimen referred to M. pacificus is the same tooth found to have a Pliocene divergence time from M. americanum based on mitochondrial genome data from a previous study, suggesting a deep divergence time between the two taxa. …”
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