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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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Timeline of Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event research
    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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    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 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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    ecological impacts associated with the Permian–Triassic and CretaceousPaleogene extinction events. Furthermore, biotic recovery from LOME proceeded at a much...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Impact event
    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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  • (and the end of the preceding Maastrichtian) is at the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event 66 Ma. The age ended 61.66 Ma, being followed by the Selandian...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Archosauria. Four distinct lineages of bird survived the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event 66 million years ago, giving rise to ostriches and relatives...
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    Permian–Triassic extinction event; the conodonts became extinct at the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. The CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, and the...
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    societies. Out of the "Big Five" extinction events in Earth's history, only the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event had occurred while angiosperms dominated...
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    the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. While other crocodylomorph groups further survived the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, notably sebecosuchians...
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    invertebrates during the Capitanian mass extinction was comparable in magnitude to the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Some studies have considered it...
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  • body, directly caused the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Keller maintains that such an impact predates the mass extinction and that Deccan volcanism...
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  • Thumbnail for Geomagnetic reversal
    impact events is weak. There is no evidence for a reversal connected with the impact event that caused the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Shortly...
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  • Thumbnail for Edelman Fossil Park
    Community Dig Days. Formed at the end of the Cretaceous Period during the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, this rich fossil deposit is abundant in marine...
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    various neoavian groups occurred very rapidly around the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, and attempts to resolve their relationships with each other...
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    species, Triceratops prorsus, became extinct during the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, 66 million years ago. Triceratops is by far the best-known...
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