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    extinction event, also called the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) or Grande Coupure (French for "great cut"), is the transition between the end of the Eocene...
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    component of late Eocene faunal communities. It survived through the Grande Coupure extinction event of western Europe in the earliest Oligocene but seemingly...
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    consistent enough with those representative of the post-Grande Coupure deposits. During the Grande Coupure, Bachitherium and associated rodents coexisting with...
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    its abundant fossil evidence. Its success was abruptly halted by the Grande Coupure extinction and faunal turnover event in the earliest Oligocene of western...
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  • xiphodont genera. It and other xiphodont genera went extinct by the Grande Coupure extinction/faunal turnover event, coinciding with shifts towards further...
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    late Eocene, and in early-Oligocene Europe, immediately following the Grande Coupure extinction event. The following cladogram is based on molecular phylogeny...
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  • the middle section (i.e. in the Hamstead Member) the effects of the Grande Coupure on the biota are clearly noticeable and follow immediately after the...
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    middle to late Eocene. It and other xiphodont genera went extinct by the Grande Coupure extinction/faunal turnover event, coinciding with shifts towards further...
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    degrees Celsius. The end is set at a major extinction event called the Grande Coupure (the "Great Break" in continuity) or the Eocene–Oligocene extinction...
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    size increase trend. It and other xiphodont genera went extinct by the Grande Coupure extinction/faunal turnover event, coinciding with shifts towards further...
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    fossil evidence from multiple localities. Pterodon went extinct by the Grande Coupure extinction and faunal turnover event in the earliest Oligocene of Europe...
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  • 10 million years before the Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, the Grande Coupure when Antarctic glaciation began, sea levels fell and land migration...
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  • of the Oligocene is marked by a notable extinction event called the Grande Coupure; it featured the replacement of European fauna with Asian fauna, except...
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  • most recent. The Grande Coupure extinction and faunal turnover event marks the boundary between MP 20 and MP 21, the post-Grande Coupure faunas occurring...
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    (200 mi) to the northeast. Popigai impact structure of similar age Grande Coupure Carolina bays Schmitz, Birger; Boschi, Samuele; Cronholm, Anders; Heck...
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    the Bering Land Bridge in the early Oligocene, coinciding with the Grande Coupure, a time of significant changes in animal species around 33 million years...
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    and West Asia. 20.44 Aquitanian 23.03 * Paleogene Oligocene Chattian Grande Coupure extinction. Start of widespread Antarctic glaciation. Rapid evolution...
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    Anoplotherium commune with muscles. Today, the Paleogene mammal is thought to have gone extinct from the Grande Coupure extinction event in western Europe....
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    Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, the European face of which is known as the Grande Coupure. The Oligocene Epoch spans from 33.9 million to 23.03 million years...
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    approximately 33 Ma, as part of a faunal turnover event known as the Grande Coupure. The Eocene-Oligocene transition marked a significant global cooling...
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  • some sources suggest that it was present in the Oligocene after the Grande Coupure turnover event of western Europe. Ephelconemus has several unusual traits...
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    place and the resulting extinction event in Europe is known as the Grande Coupure. The Coraciiformes (an order of birds including kingfishers) evolved...
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    well-connected to Western Europe. From the early Eocene up until the Grande Coupure extinction event (56 Ma – 33.9 Ma), the western Eurasian continent was...
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  • dramatic species turnover event associated with the time period is the Grande Coupure, a period that saw the replacement of European tree-dwelling and leaf-eating...
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    during the lower Rupelian as part of the Grande Coupure, and were seemingly widespread in the post-grande coupure fauna of Europe, with fossils discovered...
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    evolved in Asia and immigrated. They died out in Europe during the Grande Coupure, part of a significant extinction event at the end of the Eocene. Notharctids...
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    where he hid with the partisans for seven months. He took part in La Grande Coupure, a resistance action which on January 15, 1944, destroyed 20 electricity...
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    numbers, and many endemic European lineages (e.g. primates) died out ("grande coupure"). The cyclic changes of the Pleistocene between cold and warm periods...
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    least semi-wooded habitats. Palaeotherium became extinct during the Grande Coupure c.33.6 million years ago, an important faunal turnover event in the...
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  • Stalin's campaign of Soviet collectivization and industrialization Grande Coupure, the transition between the end of the Eocene and the beginning of the...
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