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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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    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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    Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K–T) extinction event, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of...
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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 Permian–Triassic extinction event, colloquially...
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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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    Late Devonian mass extinction, also known as the Kellwasser event, was a mass extinction event which occurred around 372 million years ago, at the boundary...
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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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    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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    at about 34 Mya (million years ago), in the mid-Cenozoic (EoceneOligocene extinction event), and the term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this...
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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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    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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    extinctions than other regions. The Late Pleistocene-early Holocene megafauna extinctions have often been seen as part of a single extinction event with...
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  • Strait's disappearance and the extinction of much of Europe's original fauna during the Eocene-Oligocene extinction event, Asian-originating lineages such...
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    The Holocene extinction, also referred to as the Anthropocene extinction or the sixth mass extinction, is an ongoing extinction event caused exclusively...
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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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    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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    Palaeotherium (category Oligocene genus extinctions)
    lived in Europe and possibly the Middle East from the Middle Eocene to the Early Oligocene. It is the type genus of the Palaeotheriidae, a group exclusive...
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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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    Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid...
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    during the Late Eocene or middle Oligocene. Uniquely, they appear to have diversified during the midst of the Eocene-Oligocene extinction event. Until the...
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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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    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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    De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of generating an organism that either resembles or is an extinct...
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    Paleogene (section Oligocene)
    Oligocene is at Massignano, near Ancona, Italy. The extinction of the hantkeninid planktonic foraminifera is the key marker for the Eocene-Oligocene boundary...
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    Canidae (category Extant Eocene first appearances)
    specialized hypercarnivorous diets that made them prone to extinction.: Fig. 1  By the Oligocene, all three subfamilies (Hesperocyoninae, Borophaginae, and...
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    Europe in the wake of a cooling/drying trend and the resulting Eocene-Oligocene extinction event, as part of an overall replacement of Europe's previously...
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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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  • transition between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs there was a significant extinction event, the cause of which is debated. The Oligocene Epoch spans from 34...
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