• The Thanetian is, in the ICS Geologic timescale, the latest age or uppermost stratigraphic stage of the Paleocene Epoch or Series. It spans the time between...
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  • million years ago (mya), the Selandian spanning 61.6 to 59.2 mya, and the Thanetian spanning 59.2 to 56 mya. It is succeeded by the Eocene. The K–Pg boundary...
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    three stages: the Danian 66.0 - 61.6 Ma; Selandian 61.6 - 59.2 Ma; and, Thanetian 59.2 - 56.0 Ma. The GSSP for the base of the Cenozoic, Paleogene and Paleocene...
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    particularly Caranx and Seriola, which extend into the early Paleogene (late Thanetian), and are known from whole and incomplete specimens, skeletal fragments...
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    escuillei is a basal proboscidean that lived from the Late Paleocene (early Thanetian some 59 Ma) to the early stages of the Ypresian age. Research has suggested...
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    Eocene. It spans the time between 56 and 47.8 Ma, is preceded by the Thanetian Age (part of the Paleocene) and is followed by the Eocene Lutetian Age...
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  • between 61.6 and 59.2 Ma. It is preceded by the Danian and followed by the Thanetian. Sometimes[when?] the Paleocene is subdivided[by whom?] in subepochs,...
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  • Anachronornis is a genus of extinct bird from the Late Paleocene (Thanetian) of North America. One species has been described, Anachronornis anhimops...
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  • Phosphates of the Ouled Abdoun Basin dating from the Selandian to the Thanetian. Only the type species H. phosphaticus is known for this genus, with the...
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  • is an extinct species of seabird that lived during the Late Paleocene (Thanetian) of Morocco. It is a distant relative of the tropicbirds. Bourdon, Estelle;...
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    Primate (category Extant Thanetian first appearances)
    Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which...
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    Rodent (category Extant Thanetian first appearances)
    Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (/roʊˈdɛnʃə/ roh-DEN-shə), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously...
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    Armadillo (category Extant Thanetian first appearances)
    Armadillos (Spanish for 'little armored ones') are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata. They form part of the superorder Xenarthra, along...
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    discrete drainage line flowing as early as 58 million years ago, in the Thanetian stage of the late Palaeocene epoch. Until around 500,000 years ago, the...
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    passerines, ruminants, pangolins, bats and true primates. 56 * Paleocene Thanetian Starts with Chicxulub impact and the K–Pg extinction event, wiping out...
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  • Protorhamphosus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Thanetian stage of the Paleocene epoch. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of...
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  • formation in Trinidad and Tobago. It preserves fossils dating back to the Thanetian to Bartonian period. Cimomia kugleri, C. subrecta Hercoglossa harrisi...
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    Mene purdyi (category Thanetian life)
    purdyi an extinct species of ray-finned fish in the genus Mene, from Late Thanetian-aged marine deposits in northern Peru. M. purdyi is currently known only...
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  • Urosphenopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Thanetian stage of the Paleocene epoch. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of...
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  • Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic Paleogene Paleocene Danian Selandian Thanetian Eocene Oligocene Neogene Miocene Aquitanian Burdigalian Langhian Serravallian...
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  • just after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the Selandian and Thanetian, around 62–58 million years ago in the Palaeocene. It is well known for...
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  • Pelagic cod Temporal range: Thanetian to Present Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata...
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  • Palaeopercichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Thanetian stage of the Paleocene epoch. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of...
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  • Sections and Points for the bases of the Selandian (Middle Paleocene) and Thanetian (Upper Paleocene Paleocene) stages at Zumaia, Spain". Episodes. 34 (4):...
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    Sand dollar (category Extant Thanetian first appearances)
    Sand dollars (also known as sea cookies or snapper biscuits in New Zealand and Brazil, or pansy shells in South Africa) are species of flat, burrowing...
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    in an ocean upwelling with its relative, Archaeus oblongus during the Thanetian epoch of the late Paleocene. Some incomplete fossil specimens were once...
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    Arambourgisuchus A. khouribgaensis Thanetian A dyrosaurid. Atlantosuchus A. coupatezi Danian A dyrosaurid. Chenanisuchus C. lateroculi Thanetian The most basal known...
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  • two species known only from isolated teeth. A. sudrei is known from the Thanetian-aged Gorgol formation of Niger and deposits of similar age in Togo and...
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    portion of the Danata Formation Lagerstatten (which otherwise spans the Thanetian epoch of the Paleocene to the Lowest Eocene), of Turkmenistan. A second...
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    extinct genus of early Proboscidea found in the Ouled Abdoun basin (early Thanetian age), Morocco. It lived about 60 million years ago. It was first named...
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