Geological era Image Cenozoic cosmo 1894 beard 1913.gif thumb right 240px Mammals are the dominant terrestrial vertebrates of the Cenozoic. The Cenozoic Era IPAc en icon s n z o . k or IPAc en s i n z o . k also C nozoic or Cainozoic meaning new life , from Greek language Greek Polytonic kainos new , and Polytonic zoe life is the current and most recent of the three classic geological era s and covers the period from 65.5 million years ago mya to the present. It is marked by the Cretaceous Tertiary extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous that saw the demise of the last non avian dinosaur s and the end of the Mesozoic Era. The Cenozoic era is ongoing. Subdivision The Cenozoic is divided into two periods, the Tertiary also sometimes divided into the Neogene and Paleogene periods and the Quaternary . ref name icschart cite web last International Commission ... in June 2009. ref name Gibbard cite doi 10.1002 jqs.1338 ref Tectonics Geology Geologically , the Cenozoic ... , around Ma 35 . ref name Allen2008 cite doi 10.1016 j.palaeo.2008.04.021 ref Climate The Cenozoic ... Life During the Cenozoic, Mammal evolution Expansion of ecological niches in the Mesozoic mammals diverged ... of Mammals, despite the fact that bird s still outnumbered mammals two to one. The Cenozoic is just ... that fed on it. One group that diversified significantly in the Cenozoic as well were the snake s. Evolving in the Cenozoic, the variety of snakes increased tremendously, resulting in many ... part of the Cenozoic, the world was dominated by the Gastornithiformes gastornid birds, terrestrial ... to cool, other mammals took over. The cenozoic is full of mammals both strange and familiar, including ... category Cenozoic Wikisource1911Enc Cainozoic Original research date December 2008 See also Geologic ... Cenozoic Category Geological history of Earth als K nozoikum ar ast Cenozoicu bs Kenozoik br Senozoeg bg ca Cenozoic cs Kenozoikum da K nozoikum de K nozoikum et Kainosoikum es Era ... more details
The Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China was established at the Peking Union Medical College in 1928 in archaeology 1928 by Canadian paleoanthropologist Davidson Black and China Chinese geologist s Ding Wenjing and Weng Wenhao for the research and appraisal of Peking Man fossils unearthed at Zhoukoudian . History Davidson Black founded the laboratory with an 80,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and stayed on as honorary director until he died in his office, surrounded by his finds, in 1934 in archaeology 1934 . ref name sheilaMelvin1 cite web url http www.iht.com articles 2005 10 10 features melvin.php title Archaeology Peking Man, still missing and missed accessdate April 20, 2008 author last Melvin first Sheila authorlink coauthors date October ..., which oversaw the Cenozoic Research Lab. ref However in the summer of 1941 in archaeology 1941 ... doi archiveurl archivedate quote Franz Weidenreich, a German who led the Cenozoic Lab after Black ... Barbour. During spring 1931 to 1937, he joined the Cenozoic Research laboratory of the Geological ... of Cenozoic Research Laboratory, he worked as its honorary director to take charge of the research ... Survey of China and facilitated the excavation at Zhoukoudian and the establishment of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory together with Davidson Black and Weng Wenhao. He worked as honorary director of the Cenozoic ... worked in the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China as a trainee. In April ... Cave site and worked as the director of Zhoukoudian Office of Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological ... on Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian. He worked as a consultant of Cenozoic Research Laboratory for a long ... College. In 1935, he assumed the office of honorary director of Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the geological ... at Zhokoudian. After the establishment of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory, he had been working ... reflist 2 External links http www.igcas.ac.cn english dcge.htm Division of Cenozoic Geology and Environment ... more details
Summary The lower units of the Black Hills Paleozoic layers. The Deadwood Formation, Englewood Formation, and PahaSapa Limestone are topped with a gravel terace of Cenozoic age. Photo and Graphics by BHrock aka Mike Vinton Licensing PD self date October 2006 ... more details
Summary The lower units of the Black Hills Paleozoic layers. The Deadwood Formation, Englewood Formation, and PahaSapa Limestone are topped with a gravel terace of Cenozoic age. Photo and Graphics by BHrock aka Mike Vinton Licensing PD self date October 2006 ... more details
Infobox mountain name Mount Sanford photo photo caption elevation m 1827 elevation ref prominence m 402 prominence ref location British Columbia British Columbia, Canada range coordinates coord 59 29.20 N 132 49.20 W type mountain region CA topo type age Cenozoic volcanic arc belt Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province last eruption Cenozoic first ascent Mount Sanford is a mountain in northwestern British Columbia , Canada , located convert 50 km mi 0 abbr on east of Atlin, British Columbia Atlin . ref http www.bivouac.com MtnPg.asp?MtnId 3129 Mount Sanford in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia. ref Mount Sanford is a volcanic feature of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province that formed in the past 66.4 million years of the Cenozoic epoch. ref http gsc.nrcan.gc.ca volcanoes cat volcano e.php?id svb mts 132 Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes Mount Sanford ref See also List of volcanoes in Canada List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes Volcanism of Canada Volcanism of Western Canada References reflist Category Mountains of British Columbia Sanford Category Volcanoes of British Columbia Sanford Category Cenozoic volcanoes Sanford Category Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province BritishColumbiaInterior geo stub ... more details
fold and thrust belt Late Cretaceous Cenozoic Thin skinned deformation Thin skin Cordillera Oriental Bolivia Central Andean fold and thrust belt Mesozoic Cenozoic Thin skinned deformation Thin skin ... more details
orphan date November 2009 Moose Creek is a creek in western Yukon , Canada . The landscape surrounding Moose Creek lies in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province . During the Cenozoic era, volcanic activity engulfed the Moose Creek area. ref http gsc.nrcan.gc.ca volcanoes cat volcano e.php?id svb mcr 125 Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes Moose Creek ref However, the type of volcanic landform these volcanics represent is unknown. ref http www.eos.ubc.ca krussell epapers GSAB ER2000.pdf Distribution, nature, and origin of Neogene Quaternary magmatism in the northern Cordilleran volcanic province, Canada ref See also List of rivers of Yukon List of volcanoes in Canada List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes Volcanism of Canada Volcanism of Northern Canada References reflist coord missing Yukon Category Rivers of Yukon Category Volcanism of Yukon Category Cenozoic volcanism Yukon geo stub ... more details
orphan date March 2010 Unreferenced date November 2006 The Charcot Plate was a fragment of the Phoenix Plate . The Charcot Plate is subduct ing under West Antarctica . The subduction of the Charcot Plate stopped before 83 Ma, and became fused onto the Antarctic Peninsula . There are remnants of the western part of the Charcot Plate in the Bellingshausen Sea . Category Historical tectonic plates Category Cretaceous Category Cenozoic Category Natural history of Antarctica Tectonics stub Palaeo geo stub uk ... more details
Infobox mountain name Chikoida Mountain photo photo caption elevation m 1927 elevation ref prominence m 975 prominence ref location British Columbia British Columbia, Canada range Taku Plateau coordinates coord 59 13.58 N 133 02.46 W type mountain region CA topo type age Cenozoic volcanic arc belt Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province last eruption Cenozoic first ascent Chikoida Mountain is a mountain on the Taku Plateau in northwestern British Columbia , Canada , located convert 52 km mi 0 abbr on southeast of Atlin, British Columbia Atlin on the east side of the Silver Salmon River . ref BCGNIS 5847 Chikoida Mountain ref ref cite bivouac 3129 Chikoida Mountain ref Chikoida Mountain is a volcanic feature of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province that formed in the past 66.4 million years of the Cenozoic epoch. ref cite ccv id svb chm 133 title Chikoida Mountain ref See also List of volcanoes in Canada List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes Volcanism of Canada Volcanism of Western Canada Volcanic history of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province References reflist Interior Mountains Category Mountains of British Columbia Category Volcanoes of British Columbia Category Cenozoic volcanoes Category Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province Category Taku Plateau BritishColumbiaInterior geo stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 This theory is proposed by Wood Jones 1916 . The arboreal theory claims that primate s evolved from their ancestors by adapting to arboreal life. Primates are thought to have developed several of their Trait biology traits and Habituation habits initially while living in trees. One key component to this argument is that primates relied on sight over Olfaction smell . They were able to develop a keen sense of depth perception , perhaps because of the constant leaping that was necessary to move about the trees. Primates also developed hand s and Foot feet that were capable of grasping. This was also a result of arboreal life, which required a great deal of crawling along branches, and reaching out for fruit and other food. These early primates were likely to have diet nutrition eaten foods found in trees, such as flowers, fruits, berries, gums, leaves, and insects. They are thought to have shifted their diets towards insects in the early Cenozoic Cenozoic era , when insects became more numerous. DEFAULTSORT Arboreal Theory Category Theories Category Evolutionary biology ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Notiothauma is also a synonym zoology synonym of the spider genus Lygarina of the Linyphiidae family. Taxobox name Eomeropidae fossil range Cenozoic Recent regnum Animalia phylum Arthropoda classis Insecta ordo Mecoptera familia Eomeropidae genus Notiothauma genus authority MacLachlan, 1877 species N. reedi binomial Notiothauma reedi binomial authority Robert McLachlan MacLachlan , 1877 The Mecoptera n family Eomeropidae contains only a single living species, Notiothauma reedi , known from the Nothofagus forests in southern Chile and Argentina . It is a remarkable species, flattened and extremely roach like in appearance and habits. They are nocturnal, and scuttle on the forest floor, where they can be collected by laying trails of oatmeal. The larvae are still unknown. The only other genus in the family, Eomerope , is extinct, known only from Cenozoic fossils thus, N. reedi can be characterized as a living fossil taxon. Wikispecies Eomeropidae Category Mecoptera Category Living fossils no Eomeropidae ru Eomeropidae ... more details
Unreferenced type animal date December 2009 Taxobox name Xenophidia image KINGCOBRA.jpg image width 250px image caption King Cobra , an Elapidae elapid . regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Reptile Reptilia ordo Squamata subordo Serpentes superfamilia Xenophidia subdivision ranks Families subdivision See text. Xenophidia Caenophidia is a Taxonomic rank superfamily of the suborder Serpentes snake s that contains cobra s, viperidae viper s, sea snake s and the majority of snake species. Almost all venomous snakes belong to this superfamily. Additionally, the broad belly scales and rows of dorsal scales correspond to the vertebrae in Caenophidians, while they do not in Henophidians or Scolecophidians . Caenophidia contains most of the diversity of extant snakes, with over 3,000 species . They are believed to be a recent evolutionary radiation , having evolved in the Cenozoic mid Cenozoic . Families Atractaspididae mole vipers . Colubridae rear fanged snakes . Elapidae cobra s, mamba s, coral snake s and krait s . Hydrophiidae sea snake s . Viperidae Viperidae viper s, pit viper s and rattlesnake s . Snake families Category Snakes Snake stub de Nattern und Vipernartige fr Caenophidia no Avanserte slanger ... more details
The alkaline Meidob volcanic field is a volcanic field at the northeast end of the Darfur volcanic province in western Sudan , adjacent to the Tagabo Hills Kutum volcanic field . It covers an area of 5000 km with nearly 700 late Cenozoic vents. The volcanic field was constructed over an uplifted Precambrian igneous and metamorphic basement rock basement and is elongated in an east west direction. Scoria Basaltic scoria cones and associated lava flows dominate, but Trachyte trachytic phonolitic lava domes, tuff ring s, and maar s are among the youngest volcanic products. The lava from the scoria cones produced a broad lava plateau. The central part of the field consists of younger phonolitic lava flows, trachytic pumice fall deposits, ignimbrite s, and maars. The youngest dated eruptions about 5000 years ago produced a tuff ring and a lava flow. See also List of volcanoes in Sudan Further reading Franz et al. 1997 . The alkaline Meidob volcanic field Late Cenozoic, northwest Sudan . Journal of African Earth Sciences . 25 2 263 291. coord 15 19 00 N 26 28 00 E source skwiki region SD display title Category Volcanoes of Sudan Category Maars Category Volcanic fields Category Darfur volcanology stub cs Meidob sk Meidob ... more details
Image Huayllay panoramic.jpg 400px thumb right Huayllay town 1982 , in the background, the Huayllay National Sanctuary The Huayllay National Sanctuary is park in Peru located in the Meseta of Bomb n , Huayhuash Cordillera in the Pasco region . The sanctuary is noted for the large scenic rock formations of the Rock Forest of Huayllay , and its native plants and animals. Geology The rock formations date to the Cenozoic Cenozoic age , and have been progressively worn down through erosion , and now stand above a valley. The formations are sometimes compared to Shilin Stone Forest Shilin Stone Forest in China and Garden of the Gods in the U.S.A. Recreation The rock forest is a major tourist attraction in Peru, for both hiking and sightseeing. It is also an international destination for rock climbing rock climbers . Extension and climate The surface area of the district is 607 km sup 2 sup 234 square miles . The climate is cold and dry, with temperatures that vary between 13.8 C and 8 C 59 F and 18 F . External links http www.munihuayllay.gob.pe Municipality Huayllay es http www.huayllay.com Huayllay National Sanctuary Rock Forest Natural Wonder of Peru and the World. coord 11.00034 S 76.36597 W source placeopedia display title Natural and Cultural Peruvian Heritage Category National sanctuaries of Peru Peru geo stub SouthAm protected area stub es Santuario Nacional de Huayllay qu Wayllay mamallaqta willkachasqa ... more details
Italic title Taxobox name Jaspidiconus pfluegeri image image caption regnum Animal ia phylum Mollusca classis Gastropoda unranked familia clade Caenogastropoda br clade Hypsogastropoda br clade Neogastropoda superfamilia Conoidea familia Conidae subfamilia genus Jaspidiconus species J. pfluegeri binomial Jaspidiconus pfluegeri binomial authority Petuch, 2004 ref WRMS source 140939 Petuch 2004 . Cenozoic Seas the view from Eastern North America. Cenozoic Seas Xvi 308 pp. 29 March 2010 ref synonyms ref synonyms Jaspidiconus pfluegeri is a species of sea snail , a marine gastropod mollusk in the family biology family Conidae , the Conus cone snails and their allies. ref name WoRMS WRMS species 458142 Jaspidiconus pfluegeri Petuch, 2004 29 March 2010 ref Description Empty section date March 2010 Distribution Empty section date March 2010 References reflist External links Use dmy dates date January 2011 DEFAULTSORT Jaspidiconus Pfluegeri Category Conidae conidae stub vi Jaspidiconus pfluegeri ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image San Andreas Fault Sequential Diagrams.jpg thumb right 250px The pre existing Farallon Trench from 10 to 30 Ma. The Farallon Trench was an ancient oceanic trench on the west coast of North America during the Late Cretaceous period. When the trench disappeared, it turned into the San Andreas Fault . Since then, it has spread out to the north and south. See also Farallon Plate List of tectonic plates coord missing Category Oceanic trenches of the Pacific Ocean Category Cretaceous Category Cenozoic Category Historical geology Tectonics stub Palaeo geo stub ... more details
The Stockton Arch is a geologic feature underlying the Central Valley California Central Valley in California in the vicinity of the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta delta of the Sacramento River Sacramento and San Joaquin River s, near the city of Stockton, California Stockton . The Stockton Arch is an upwarping of the crust beneath the thick sediments of the Central Valley, and is regarded as the subsurface separation between the Sacramento River basin and the San Joaquin River basin. References The Cenozoic Evolution of the San Joaquin Valley, California , by J.A. Bartow, published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1501 1991 US geology stub Category Central Valley of California ... more details
Taxobox name Orycterocetus fossil range Miocene image image caption regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Mammal ia classis Mammal ia ordo Cetacea subordo Odontoceti familia Physeteridae genus Orycterocetus Orycterocetus is an extinct genus of sperm whale from the Miocene . Sources Cenozoic Seas The View From Eastern North America by Edward J. Petuch Marine Mammals Evolutionary Biology by Annalisa Berta and James L. Sumich Category Sperm whales Category Miocene mammals Category Prehistoric toothed whales paleo whale stub portal Paleontology ca Orycterocetus es Orycterocetus fr Orycterocetus ... more details
missing taxobox Prodaphaenus is an extinct genus of Miacidae . The genus has at least one known species Prodaphaenus scotti . Sources Flynn, J.J., 1998. Early Cenozoic Carnivora Miacoidea . pp.110 123 in C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.L. Jacobs eds. Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1 Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0 521 35519 2 http zipcodezoo.com Key Prodaphaenus Genus.asp zipcodezoo.com http paleodb.org cgi bin bridge.pl?action checkTaxonInfo&taxon no 40986 paleodb.org http findarticles.com p articles mi qa3790 is 200307 ai n9278963 pg 2 findarticles.com paleo mammal stub Category Miacids Category Eocene mammals ca Prodaphaenus ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The Bering Sea Volcanic Province , also called the Bering Sea Basalt Province , is a group of volcanic field s in western Alaska , United States . ref http cat.inist.fr ?aModele afficheN&cpsidt 18973779 The sup 40 sup Ar sup 39 sup Ar chronology and eruption rates of Cenozoic volcanism in the eastern Bering Sea Volcanic Province, Alaska ref List Imuruk Lake volcanic field Teller volcanic field St. George Island Alaska St. George Island St. Lawrence Island Nunivak Island St. Michael volcanic field References reflist coord missing Alaska Category Volcanoes of Alaska Alaska geo stub ... more details
Image Hotspots.jpg right thumb 450px The Meteor hotspot is marked 27 on map. The Meteor hotspot is a proposed volcano volcanic hotspot geology hotspot located at or near the Meteor Rise in the southern Atlantic Ocean . ref cite journal title Southern Ocean hotspot tracks and the Cenozoic absolute motion of the African, Antarctic, and South American plates last1 Hartnady first1 C.J.H last2 Roex first2 A.P. le publisher Earth and Planetary Science Letters year 1985 pages 245 257 ref References reflist Category Hotspots of the Atlantic Ocean Volcanology stub ... more details
Alan H. Cheetham is a paleobiologist and retired senior scientist and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of Natural History . Born in El Paso, Texas, January 30, 1928, Cheetham grew up in Taos, New Mexico , received B.S. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology , 1950 and M.S. Louisiana State University , 1952 degrees in geology, and, under the guidance of Norman D. Newell , obtained his Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University in 1959. Until joining the Smithsonian in 1966, Cheetham was a member of the geology faculty at Louisiana State University during his tenure there, he was also a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum in London 1961 and a guest professor at the University of Stockholm , Sweden 1964 . He retired from the Smithsonian in 2001 and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico . Much of his research includes testing evolutionary models in the fossil record, particularly the theory of punctuated equilibrium . His research is focused on the systematics and morphometrics of late Mesozoic and Cenozoic bryozoan s found in deposits located in the Caribbean, especially the Dominican Republic , Panama , Costa Rica , and Venezuela , and the Gulf coast of the United States, particularly Florida , Alabama , and Mississippi . He has also worked extensively on Cenozoic bryozoans in England and southern Scandinavia and was a contributor to the Deep Sea Drilling Project on Cenozoic bryozoans recovered from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In April 1997 Cheetham was awarded the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Excellence in Paleontology by the Society for Sedimentary Geology. In November 2001 he received the Paleontological Society Medal he was, during the same year, honored with a festschrift titled Evolutionary Patterns , edited by Jeremy Jackson, Scott Lidgard, and Frank McKinney. ref Cite journal journal Science year 2001 url http www.sciencemag.org cgi content summary 294 5544 1008 month November ... more details
About the geological term other uses Tertiary disambiguation include timeline Cenozoic The Tertiary is a deprecated term for a Geologic time scale Terminology geologic period 65 million to 2.6 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary . The period began with the demise of the non bird avian dinosaur s in the Cretaceous Tertiary extinction event , at the start of the CenozoicCenozoic era , spanning to the beginning of the most recent Ice Age , at the end of the Pliocene Pliocene epoch . Historical use of the term The term Tertiary was first used by Giovanni Arduino geologist Giovanni Arduino in 1759. He classified geologic time into primitive or primary , secondary, and tertiary periods based on observations of geology in northern Italy . ref Carl O. Dunbar, Historical Geology, 2nd ed. 1964 , John Wiley & Sons, New York, p. 352 ref Later a fourth period, the Quaternary , was applied. In 1828, Charles Lyell incorporated a Tertiary period into his own, far more detailed system of classification. He subdivided the Tertiary period into four epochs according to the percentage of fossil mollusk s resembling modern species found in those stratum strata . He used Greek language Greek names Eocene, Miocene, Older Pliocene and Newer Pliocene. Although these divisions seemed adequate for the region to which the designations were originally applied parts of the Alps and plains of Italy , when the same system was later extended to other parts of Europe and to America, it proved to be inapplicable. Therefore, the use of mollusks was abandoned from the definition and the epochs were renamed and redefined. The Tertiary is not presently recognized as a formal unit by the International Commission on Stratigraphy , ref http www.stratigraphy.org upload ISChart2009.pdf International Stratigraphic Chart ref its traditional .... References reflist Paleogene Footer Neogene Footer Geological history p c Category Cenozoic ... more details
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