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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The EoceneOligocene extinction event, also called...
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    the Grande Coupure (the "Great Break" in continuity) or the EoceneOligocene extinction event, which may be related to the impact of one or more large bolides...
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    This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor:   "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...
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  • Balkanatolia (category Eocene)
    Western Europe for as much as 10 million years before the EoceneOligocene extinction event, the Grande Coupure when Antarctic glaciation began, sea levels...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...
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    P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and...
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    Last Glacial Period (category Pleistocene events)
    began to form earlier, at about 34 Mya, in the mid-Cenozoic (EoceneOligocene extinction event), and the term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this...
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  • extant forms of molluscs. The Oligocene is preceded by the Eocene Epoch and is followed by the Miocene Epoch. The Oligocene is the third and final epoch...
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    Eocene was marked by the EoceneOligocene extinction event, the European face of which is known as the Grande Coupure. The Oligocene Epoch spans from 33.9 million...
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    end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history,...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME)...
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    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses...
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    Popigai impact structure (category Eocene impact craters)
    million years ago during the late Eocene epoch (Priabonian stage). It might be linked to the EoceneOligocene extinction event. The structure is 300 km (190 mi)...
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    linked to two extinction events: Chicxulub for the Cretaceous–Paleogene and the Popigai impact for the EoceneOligocene extinction event. As of 2022[update]...
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    consisted of several extinction events in the Late Devonian Epoch, which collectively represent one of the five largest mass extinction events in the history...
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    Proailurus is the oldest known cat that occurred after the EoceneOligocene extinction event about 33.9 million years ago; fossil remains were excavated...
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    Holocene extinction, or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event caused by humans during the Holocene epoch. These extinctions span numerous...
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  • Thumbnail for Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
    Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the...
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    Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact...
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    million years ago. About 34 million years ago, the time of the EoceneOligocene extinction event and when the Antarctic ice sheet started to take its current...
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    Bachitherium (category Oligocene extinctions)
    genus of Paleogene ruminants that lived in Europe from the late Eocene to the late Oligocene. The genus was erected in 1882 by Henri Filhol based on fossil...
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    Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that ended the preceding Cretaceous Period. This period consists of the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs. The end...
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    extinct at the end of the Eocene. A supported theory is that these mammals went extinct during the Eocene-Oligocene extinction event; A large faunal turnover...
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    The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), alternatively ”Eocene thermal maximum 1 (ETM1)“ and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or “Late Paleocene...
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    Late Palaeocene or middle Eocene between 60 and 45.5 million years ago and escalated during the EoceneOligocene extinction event about 34 million years...
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  • Glaciation is one factor that leads to local extinction. This was the case during the Pleistocene glaciation event in North America. During this period, most...
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  • Oryctoantiquus (category Extant Eocene first appearances)
    tropical to a cooler, temperate climate; this event is known as the Eocene-Oligocene extinction event. This led to O. borealis going extinct, as they...
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    Late Palaeocene or middle Eocene between 60 and 45.5 million years ago and escalated during the EoceneOligocene extinction event about 34 million years...
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    Thaumastosaurus (category Eocene amphibians)
    from the Eocene of Algeria. Thaumastosaurus appears to have gone extinct at the end of the Eocene, during the EoceneOligocene extinction event as the climate...
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  • climate caused the large scale extinction of flora and fauna in what is called the EoceneOligocene extinction event. It is suggested that the shift...
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