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Argon isotope dating on the island of Samos contributes to the reconciliation of continental and marine time scales in the Mediterranean basin; the first appearance of Hipparion, widely accepted as the criterion for the beginning of the Pliocene in land mammal successions, has been shown to be middle Miocene.
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VAN COUVERING, J., MILLER, J. Late Miocene Marine and Non-marine Time Scale in Europe. Nature 230, 559–563 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230559a0
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