Learn about the time period that took place 65 to 23 million years ago. 3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine ...

The geologic time scale is divided into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages ... other animal groups 65.5 million years ago defines the beginning of the Cenozoic era. We are including several pages ...

It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the Paleogene - the first period of the Cenozoic Era, our current era. It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million ...

Now, a new study finds evidence of this flood in ridges along the Sicily Sill and in channels that likely formed from this sudden and powerful deluge. Ages, epochs, periods, and even eras are often ...