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The Cenozoic Era is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66 million years of Earth's history. It is characterized by the dominance of mammals, insects, birds and angiosperms. It is th
Rock deposits from the Cenozoic Era (Torre Sant'Andrea, Salento, Italy)
Basilosaurus
Megafauna of Pleistocene Europe (mammoths, cave lions, woolly rhinoceros, reindeer, horses)
Restoration of Palaeotherium, a Paleogene relative of horses that lived in subtropical climates of Europe during the Eocene
The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, was a major mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth which occu
Cenozoic
…plants). It is the latest of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, preceded by the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. The Cenozoic started with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, when many species, including the non-avian dinosaurs, became extinct in an event attributed by most experts to the impact of a large asteroid or other…
Discoscaphites iris, an ammonite from the Owl Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous), in Owl Creek near Ripley, Mississippi
Rudist bivalves from the Late Cretaceous of the Omani Mountains, United Arab Emirates. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Tyrannosaurus was among the dinosaurs living on Earth before the extinction
Hell Creek Formation