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Paleogene is a geological period that extends from about 66 million to 23 million years ago, known for the diversification of mammals
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- Of a geologic period within the Cenozoic era; comprises the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene epochs from about 65 to 23 million years ago.
- The Paleogene period.
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The paleogene formations include seams of coal.
Major changes are also seen in Paleogene insect communities.
In the fossil record clupeids date back to the early Paleogene.
It is one of the largest Paleogene discoveries.
Paleogene red beds and Ordovician sediments form the basement of the caldera.
In a few upland areas it is unconformably overlain by Paleogene gravel deposits.
The continents during the Paleogene continued to drift closer to their current positions.
Several extinct coraciiform families are only known from Paleogene fossils.
A third phase during the Paleogene is restricted to the borders of the onshore Tertiary basins.
Ants became dominant after adaptive radiation at the beginning of the Paleogene period.
On the basis of the microflora a Paleogene age is assigned to the unit.
Asiatosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyloid crocodilians that lived in Eurasia during the Paleogene.
It is the first Ginkgo species to be described from Paleogene period with reproductive structures.
It forms an inverted extensional basin which has been geologically active since the Paleogene epoch.
They consist primarily of Cretaceous and Paleogene sedimentary rocks in multiple folds.
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This thesis also proves the existence of important latitudinal thermal gradients throughout the Paleogene.
The Paleogene is the oldest of the three stratigraphic divisions of the Cenozoic Era.
These majestic mountains were formed in a series of foldings during Paleogene and Neogene times.
Paleogene pseudoglyptodont xenarthrans from central Chile and Argentine Patagonia.
A multidisciplinary study to understand their isolation progress and continental climate change during the Late Paleogene.
The lower sequence which is composed from Paleogene sediments from the Cau Formation.
He was a renowned paleobotanist working on the floras of the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene.
From the Late Cretaceous to the Paleogene there were few deposits.
Driskill Mountain is a landform created by the erosion of unlithified Paleogene sediment.
The Paleogene epoch.
It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene Period.
The Paleogene sediments.
It is predominantly sandstone deposited during the Paleogene Period.
It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era.
The species in this family occurred from the Paleogene to Recent.
It ended with the Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Turkmenidae is an extinct family of lamprids from the Paleogene of Turkmenistan.
In the Paleogene both pterosaurs and marine reptiles became extinct, allowing seabirds to expand ecologically.
Differential uplift occurred in the late Paleogene and Neogene.
Paleogene equatorial penguins challenge the proposed relationship between biogeography, diversity, and Cenozoic climate change ".
This arrangement also unites most Mesozoic and Paleogene alligatorines.
Paleogene seasonal variability in Central Asia, Constrains from high-resolution geochemistry on oyster shells.
The mountain range was built up by volcanic activity during the Paleogene Era.
Erosion continued on throughout the Paleogene and Neogene periods of the Cenozoic.
Pristichampsidae is an extinct family of crocodilians known from Europe during the Paleogene.
It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era.
The basalts were originally part of the great Thulean Plateau formed during the Paleogene period.
Influence on climate of Cuban Paleogene turbidite systems, as recorded.
More recent research provides evidence that Miohippus actually lived during the Paleogene period.
From the Triassic until the early Paleogene the later Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin was a non-depositional region.
First a phase of extension in the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene.
The Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction event.
The Oligocene is the third and final epoch of the Paleogene Period.
Coal deposits from Paleogene are exploited in Longyearbyen ( including Svea ) and Barentsburg.
These extrusive rocks were erupted during the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period.
