Cenozoic

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• The last major weathering episode likely brought about the end of the Cenozoic "hothouse" climate and led to the onset of Milankovitch-driven glaciations in the Quaternary.

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• Every season, crates of quartz tools and ancient mammal fossils were shipped off to the Cenozoic Laboratory.

  Academic text (2006)

• "Implied rhyme was discovered by a Cenozoic girl whose foot had gone to sleep.

  Fiction book (1999)

• This time, he brought them to the Cenozoic Laboratory of the Geological Survey at the Peking Union Medical College.

  Academic text (2006)

• During the Cenozoic Era, the chalk was uplifted (see Cenozoic Era).

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• South America's initial phase of Cenozoic mammal evolution, from 65 million to 34 million years ago, is known as Stratum 1.

  Academic text (2009)

• Although today connected to North America by the narrow Isthmus of Panama, South America was an island continent for the bulk of the Cenozoic era, the so-called Age of Mammals (from 65 million years ago to present).

  Academic text (2009)

• It belongs to a group called notoungulates, native hoofed plant eaters that persisted in South America for most of the Cenozoic era, evolving a remarkable range of body forms.

  Academic text (2009)

• The Cenozoic era is marked by the dominance of mammals and the evolution of diverse species.

• Many fossils from the Cenozoic period help scientists understand the changes in Earth's climate.

Compounds

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Cenozoic era

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A recent time in Earth's history since about 66 million years ago when mammals and birds became the main animals

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology