\[ **BT: [[Earth#the eras and periods of geologic time]] | [[prehistory]]** ] --- # Pliocene A time period from 5.333 to 2.58 million years ago.[^1] The Pliocene is the second subdivision of the [[Earth#Neogene|Neogene]]; it came after the [[geologic time#Miocene|Miocene]].[^2] ## fauna ### hominins - *[[human beings#Australopithecus|Australopithecus]]* - *[[human beings#Paranthropus|Paranthropus]]* [^1]: International Commission on Stratigraphy, ‘[[ICS, ‘International Chronostratigraphic Chart’, 2024|International Chronostratigraphic Chart]]’, International Commission on Stratigraphy, December 2024, [https://stratigraphy.org/chart/](https://stratigraphy.org/chart/). [^2]: International Commission on Stratigraphy, ‘[[ICS, ‘International Chronostratigraphic Chart’, 2024|International Chronostratigraphic Chart]]’, International Commission on Stratigraphy, December 2024, [https://stratigraphy.org/chart/](https://stratigraphy.org/chart/).