Pliocene Collection

Nebraska Man by Amedee Forestier
An artists vision of Hesperophiticus (The Ape-Man of the Western World) belonging to the Pliocene epoch. The picture was drawn by Forestier for The Illustrated London News following the discovery of

Fossil molar of Nebraska man
Drawing of a fossil molar found in Nebraska, believed belong to early man - hesperopithecus (Ape-Man of the Western World)

Prehistoric landscape during the Tertiary Era, Europe
View of a prehistoric landscape, with animals, during the Tertiary Era in Europe (Palaeocene to Pliocene)

Earliest man tracked by tooth, discovery in Pliocene strata
The earliest man tracked by a tooth: an astounding discovery of human remains in Pliocene strata. An artists vision of Hesperopithecus (the ape-man of the western world) and contemporary animals

Skull of Paranthropus aethiopicus with prominent sagittal crest. Pliocene. Located in Lomekwi, Kenya. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom

Skeleton of Myotragus balearicus. Spain
Myotragus balearicus. Small mammal like antelope feeding on bark and lichens. He lived in Majorca and Minorca until about 5000 years ago. Skeleton. Museum of Paleontology. Sabadell. Spain

Jaw of Australopithecus anamensis. Pliocene. Located in Kanapoi, Kenya. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom

Tertiary L scape
European landscape of the Tertiary period (Paleocene to Pliocene) Date: 65 - 1.8 million BC

Fossil skeleton of a Great Beast, Megatherium, an extinct elephant-sized ground sloth.. Copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France

Megatherium americanum, extinct genus of giant ground sloths from the Pliocene through Pleistocene.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F

Teleoceras, extinct genus of grazing rhinoceros of the Miocene to early Pliocene epoch.. Colour printed (chromolithograph)

Aceratherium, extinct genus of rhinoceros from the Oligocene to Pliocene.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World

Megatherium americanum or Great Beast, genus of elephant-sized ground sloths native to America.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World

Elasmotherium, extinct genus of giant rhinoceros native to Asia.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916, Hamburg

Toxodon Platensis, found at Sadillo
Illustration (p.134) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Australopithecus africanus model
Model of an adult female Australopithecus africanus reconstructed from remains found at Sterkfontein, South Africa. Probably lived about 2.5 million years ago during the Plio-Pleistocene

Cleodora sp. holoplanktonic mollusc
Fossilised specimen of holoplantktonic molluscs originating from Pliocene rocks, near Turin, Italy

Roman lamp and fossil brachiopod
PDT replica of roman lamp and the fossil brachiopod (Terebratula maxima Charlesworth) from the Pliocene. Coralline Crag. Park Pit, Sudbourne Park, Suffolk

Fossil shells
A selction of Mediterranean and Arctic shells from the Pliocene and Pleistocene crag of East Anglia

Piltdown Stegodon tooth
Piltdown, Sussex item E.620, part of a molar tooth of the extinct mammal Stegodon, of the Pliocene to the Pleistocene epochs. Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Terebratula, a fossil brachiopod
The pedicle opening is very clear in this British Pliocene example of Terebratula measuing 6.6 cm in height

Septastraea forbesi, coral
This Pliocene coral from Maryland, USA is 10 cm long and is a fragment of a much larger colony

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