The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters...
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011 Ma. The K–Pg boundary is associated with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, a mass extinction which destroyed a majority of the world's Mesozoic...
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amount of research has been conducted on the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era...
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of diverse animals in the wake of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that ended the preceding Cretaceous Period. The Period is marked by considerable...
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Cretaceous (along with the Mesozoic) ended with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, a large mass extinction in which many groups, including non-avian dinosaurs...
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mass extinctions have significantly exceeded the background extinction rate. The most recent and best-known, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which...
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impact 66 million years ago, believed to be the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Small objects frequently collide with Earth. There is an...
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the Cretaceous–Paleogene 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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Alvarez hypothesis (redirect from Alvarez extinction hypothesis)
posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by the...
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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 Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Its vertebrae...
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Maastrichtian (category Late Cretaceous)
(part of the Paleogene and Paleocene). The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event) occurred at...
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willows could be found in abundance. The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically...
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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 Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, another mass extinction whose...
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Danian (section Latest Danian Event)
(and the end of the preceding Maastrichtian) is at the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 Ma. The age ended 61.6 Ma, being followed by the Selandian...
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impact event may have caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction has led to speculation that similar impacts may have been the cause of other extinction events...
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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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Impact winter (category Impact events)
winter could lead to mass extinction, wiping out many of the world's existing species. The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event probably involved an impact...
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Chicxulub crater (category Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary)
resulting from the impact was the primary cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, a mass extinction of 75% of plant and animal species on Earth, including...
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Evolution of birds (category Jurassic events)
Archosauria. Four distinct lineages of bird survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago, giving rise to ostriches and relatives...
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impactor, an asteroid or comet which caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. The coastal village...
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dinosaur such as Stenonychosaurus had not perished in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, its descendants might have evolved to fill the same ecological...
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change (modern day) Climate change (general concept) Climate across Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary Thermal history of Earth Geologic temperature record Timeline...
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Ammonoidea (category Maastrichtian extinctions)
with the last species vanishing during or soon after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. They are often called ammonites, which is most frequently...
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Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the geological stratum that marks the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event and Purgatorius, sometimes considered a stem-primate, appears...
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extinction events, the Late Devonian extinction, the Permian–Triassic extinction event, the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction...
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ecological impacts associated with the Permian–Triassic and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction events. Furthermore, biotic recovery from LOME proceeded at a much...
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Ornithopoda (category Maastrichtian extinctions)
known as 'duck-bills'), before they were wiped out by the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event along with all other non-avian dinosaurs. Members are known...
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Rolfodon (category Messinian genus extinctions)
one individual species is also known to have survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event: R. tatere, which was first described from the Early Paleocene...
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