More information: E. J. Rohling et al, Reconciling the Apparent Discrepancy Between Cenozoic Deep‐Sea Temperatures From Proxies and From Benthic Oxygen Isotope Deconvolution, Paleoceanography ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...

Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

The researchers sliced the fossil record of the Cenozoic era into million-year increments and used three indices of functional diversity—which quantifies changes in community structures using ...

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 ...

Early contributors to the collection include John Clark (1936-1938), Robert W. Wilson (1938-1946), and Harold Koerner (1946-1971), who helped expand the collection of Cenozoic mammals. Clark’s primary ...