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Cenozoic

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Cainozoic period

a geological era that includes the QUATERNARY PERIOD and TERTIARY PERIOD, beginning some 65 million years ago and extending up to the present time. See GEOLOGICAL TIME.
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It is likely, the study says, Upper Cretaceous strata were present across all of Arctic Alaska before it was eroded during the Tate Cretaceious or Cenozoic eras.
The Cenozoic Era is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and covering the period from 66 million years ago to the present.
It is the closest descendent of the species that lived in this region in the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era. Lake Ohrid's depths are home to two types of salmonid fish: trout and belvica.
There is no evidence for garnet growth or temperatures near the overall metamorphic peak during the Cenozoic Era.
Louis Community College) focuses on the Cenozoic Era, the youngest of the geologic eras, sometimes known as the "age of mammals." The first of two books on the era, the text covers the first three of the seven subdivisions of the era, the Paleocene, Eocene, and the Oligocene epochs.
The ambition to succeed the 1978 classic Evolution of African mammals is certainly realized in this impressive volume, which offers 48 chapters on the animal, faunal, hominin and environmental record of the Cenozoic era in Africa, reflecting the 22 years of significant developments that have occurred between the two editions both in methods of study and finds.
The Levant Fracture System is a narrow fault of the Miocene age (Cenozoic era) extending from the Gulf of Aqaba to the foothills of the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey.
According to Brower (1994) the vicariant separation of the races could have occurred during the Cenozoic era, specifically the Pleistocene, during the formation of large mountains (including the Andes) around the world.
Numerous mammal skeletons from the more recent Cenozoic Era were also added to the gallery.
This large fish arose in the Cenozoic Era like a dinosaur, then survived the cold crunch of advancing glaciers and lived to thrive in the big, muddy rivers of middle North America.
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