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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal...
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    amount of research has been conducted on the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era...
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    043 Ma. The K–Pg boundary is associated with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, a mass extinction which destroyed a majority of the world's Mesozoic...
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    early Paleogene, as survivors of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event took advantage of empty ecological niches left behind by the extinction of the...
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    Cretaceous (along with the Mesozoic) ended with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, a large mass extinction in which many groups, including non-avian dinosaurs...
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    impact 66 million years ago, believed to be the cause of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Small objects frequently collide with Earth. There is an...
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    mass extinctions have significantly exceeded the background extinction rate. The most recent and best-known, the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, which...
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    willows could be found in abundance. The CretaceousPaleogene extinction event was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically...
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  • the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg or formerly the K–T boundary) is very important to geologic time as it marks a catastrophic global extinction event...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Alvarez hypothesis
    posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event was caused by the...
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    was wiped out in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event; only 3 extant tetrapod lineages can trace their ancestry to Cretaceous India. Most of India's...
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  • Mesozoic (section Cretaceous)
    extinction event, the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, and ended with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, another mass extinction whose...
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    impact event may have caused the CretaceousPaleogene extinction has led to speculation that similar impacts may have been the cause of other extinction events...
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    Titanoboa (category Paleogene Colombia)
    following the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, being one of the largest reptiles to evolve after the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Its vertebrae...
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  • (and the end of the preceding Maastrichtian) is at the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event 66 Ma. The age ended 61.6 Ma, being followed by the Selandian...
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    Maastrichtian (category Late Cretaceous)
    province in the Netherlands. The CretaceousPaleogene extinction event (formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event) occurred at the end of this...
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    Chicxulub crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    resulting from the impact was the primary cause of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, a mass extinction of 75% of plant and animal species on Earth, including...
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  • extinction event as a result. It is classified as a minor extinction event, rather than a major event like the famous CretaceousPaleogene extinction...
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  • Thumbnail for Neoaves
    various neoavian groups occurred very rapidly around the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, and attempts to resolve their relationships with each other...
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    Cenozoic (section Paleogene)
    started with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, when many species, including the non-avian dinosaurs, became extinct in an event attributed by most...
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    Impact winter (category Impact events)
    winter could lead to mass extinction, wiping out many of the world's existing species. The CretaceousPaleogene extinction event probably involved an impact...
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    impactor, an asteroid or comet which caused the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, which led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs and...
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  • change (modern day) Climate change (general concept) Climate across CretaceousPaleogene boundary Thermal history of Earth Geologic temperature record Timeline...
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    dinosaur such as Stenonychosaurus had not perished in the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, its descendants might have evolved to fill the same ecological...
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    Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the geological stratum that marks the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event and Purgatorius, sometimes considered a stem-primate, appears...
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    Ammonoidea (category Paleocene extinctions)
    with the last species vanishing during or soon after the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. They are often called ammonites, which is most frequently...
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    ecological impacts associated with the Permian–Triassic and CretaceousPaleogene extinction events. Furthermore, biotic recovery from LOME proceeded at a much...
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    extinction events, the Late Devonian extinction, the Permian–Triassic extinction event, the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, and the CretaceousPaleogene extinction...
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    Ornithopoda (category Maastrichtian extinctions)
    known as 'duck-bills'), before they were wiped out by the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event along with all other non-avian dinosaurs. Members are known...
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