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noun - approximately the last 63 million years
adj - of or relating to or denoting the Cenozoic era
The Cenozoic Era.
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The name of this most recent geological era is from the Greek for "new animals" |
Geologic time eras:Paleozoic, Mesozoic, this |
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relating to or denoting the most recent era, following the Mesozoic era and comprising the Tertiary and Quaternary periods. |
approximately the last 63 million years |
Relating to or denoting the most recent era, following the Mesozoic era and comprising the Tertiary and Quaternary periods. |
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The Cenozoic Era () meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and extending from 66 million years ago to the present day. * The Cenozoic is also known as the Age of Mammals, because the extinction of many groups allowed mammals to greatly diversify so that large mammals dominated it. The continents also moved into their current positions during this era. * Early in the Cenozoic, following the K-Pg extinction event, most of the fauna was relatively small, and included small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. From a geological perspective, it did not take long for mammals and birds to greatly diversify in the absence of the large reptiles that had dominated during the Mesozoic. A group of avians known as the "terror birds" grew larger than the average human and were formidable predators. Mammals came to occupy almost every available niche (both marine and terrestrial), and some also grew very large, attaining sizes not seen in most of today's mammals. * The Earth's climate had begun a drying and cooling trend, culminating in the glaciations of the Pleistocene Epoch, and partially offset by the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. |