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The <Miocene> is the older <Neogene> epoch, approximately $23.04$ to $5.333$ million years ago.<International Chronostratigraphic Chart by International Commission on Stratigraphy (2026-06)>[Miocene row]{ref} Dating a <rock> to this interval places it before the <Pliocene>; interpreting the environment in which it formed additionally requires observations such as <sedimentary rock> structure, composition and <fossils>. An age label and an environmental reconstruction answer different questions.


 Miocene (source code)