Cenozoic
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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
Quaternary
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The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, as well as the current and most recen
Cenozoic
…Paleozoic ('old life') Eras, as well as to the Proterozoic ('earlier life') Eon. The Cenozoic is divided into three periods: the Paleogene, Neogene, and Quaternary; and seven epochs: the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene. The Quaternary Period was officially recognised by…
Artist's impression of Earth during the Last Glacial Maximum
Land ocean ice cloud hires