The first epoch of the Neogene period, spanning about 23 million to 5.33 million years ago. Grassland and savanna ecosystems expanded substantially during the Miocene, and its climate and ocean temperature gradients were already broadly similar to those of the present day. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Early Miocene mid-latitude seawater and continental thermal gradients were already very similar to those of the present.
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