Cenozoic, the Glossary
The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.[1]
Table of Contents
150 relations: Africa, Afro-Eurasia, Andrewsarchus, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Antarctica, Ape, Arabian Peninsula, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Australia (continent), Australopithecus, Baltic Sea, Bat, Bird, Black Sea, Borhyaenidae, Brontotheriidae, Calcareous nannofossils, Carnivora, Caspian Sea, Chalicotheriidae, Chicxulub crater, Colubridae, Congo River, Conifer, Continent, Creodonta, Cretaceous, Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Crocodilia, Desert, Desiccation, Diatom, Dinocerata, Dinosaur, Dire wolf, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Ecological niche, El Kef, Entelodontidae, Eocene, Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, Eutheria, Flowering plant, Gastornis, Geologic time scale, Geological Society of America Bulletin, ... Expand index (100 more) »
- 1840s neologisms
- Geological eras
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Afro-Eurasia
Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Andrewsarchus
Andrewsarchus is an extinct genus of ungulate that lived during the Middle Eocene in China.
See Cenozoic and Andrewsarchus
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences is an annual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Annual Reviews, which broadly covers Earth and planetary sciences, including geology, atmospheric sciences, climate, geophysics, environmental science, geological hazards, geodynamics, planet formation, and solar system origins.
See Cenozoic and Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica.
See Cenozoic and Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Ape
Apes (collectively Hominoidea) are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were more widespread in Africa, most of Asia, and Europe in prehistory), which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys.
See Cenozoic and Ape
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
See Cenozoic and Arabian Peninsula
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
See Cenozoic and Atlantic Ocean
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Australia (continent)
The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.
See Cenozoic and Australia (continent)
Australopithecus
Australopithecus is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.
See Cenozoic and Australopithecus
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
Bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.
See Cenozoic and Bat
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Borhyaenidae
Borhyaenidae is an extinct metatherian family of low-slung, heavily built predatory mammals in the order Sparassodonta.
Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the order Perissodactyla, the order that includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.
See Cenozoic and Brontotheriidae
Calcareous nannofossils
Calcareous nannofossils are a class of tiny (less than 30 microns in diameter) microfossils that are similar to coccoliths deposited by the modern-day coccolithophores.
See Cenozoic and Calcareous nannofossils
Carnivora
Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans.
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.
Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotheriidae (from Greek chalix, "gravel" and therion, "beast") is an extinct family of herbivorous, odd-toed ungulate (perissodactyl) mammals that lived in North America, Eurasia, and Africa from the Middle Eocene until the Early Pleistocene, existing from 48.6 to 1.806 mya.
See Cenozoic and Chalicotheriidae
Chicxulub crater
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
See Cenozoic and Chicxulub crater
Colubridae
Colubridae (commonly known as colubrids, from coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes.
Congo River
The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around.
Conifer
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.
Continent
A continent is any of several large geographical regions.
Creodonta
Creodonta ("meat teeth") is a former order of extinct carnivorous placental mammals that lived from the early Paleocene to the late Miocene epochs in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) boundary, is a geological signature, usually a thin band of rock containing much more iridium than other bands.
See Cenozoic and Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.
See Cenozoic and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
Crocodilia
Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.
Desert
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems.
Desiccation
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.
Diatom
A diatom (Neo-Latin diatoma) is any member of a large group comprising several genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.
Dinocerata
Dinocerata (from the Greek δεινός, "terrible", and κέρας, "horn") or Uintatheria, also known as uintatheres, is an extinct order of large herbivorous hoofed mammals with horns and protuberant canine teeth, known from the Paleocene and Eocene of Asia and North America.
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
Dire wolf
The dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) is an extinct canine.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on physical, chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth and other planets, including extrasolar ones.
See Cenozoic and Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.
See Cenozoic and Ecological niche
El Kef
Kef Ouest --> El Kef (الكاف), also known as Le Kef, is a city in northwestern Tunisia.
Entelodontidae
Entelodontidae is an extinct family of pig-like artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates) which inhabited the Northern Hemisphere (Asia, Europe, and North America) from the late Eocene to the early Miocene epochs, about 38-19 million years ago.
See Cenozoic and Entelodontidae
Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Eocene–Oligocene extinction event
The Eocene–Oligocene 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 and the beginning of the Oligocene, an extinction event and faunal turnover occurring between 33.9 and 33.4 million years ago.
See Cenozoic and Eocene–Oligocene extinction event
Eutheria
Eutheria (from Greek εὐ-, 'good, right' and θηρίον, 'beast'), also called Pan-Placentalia, is the clade consisting of placental mammals and all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials.
Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
See Cenozoic and Flowering plant
Gastornis
Gastornis is an extinct genus of large, flightless birds that lived during the mid-Paleocene to mid-Eocene epochs of the Paleogene period.
Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
See Cenozoic and Geologic time scale
Geological Society of America Bulletin
The Geological Society of America Bulletin (until 1960 called The Bulletin of the Geological Society of America and also commonly referred to as GSA Bulletin) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that has been published by the Geological Society of America since 1890.
See Cenozoic and Geological Society of America Bulletin
Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
Geomorphology (journal)
Geomorphology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal about geomorphology.
See Cenozoic and Geomorphology (journal)
Glacial period
A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.
See Cenozoic and Glacial period
Great American Interchange
The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the formerly separated continents.
See Cenozoic and Great American Interchange
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Holocene extinction
The Holocene extinction, or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event caused by humans during the Holocene epoch.
See Cenozoic and Holocene extinction
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of.
Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
Human history
Human history is the development of humankind from prehistory to the present.
See Cenozoic and Human history
Humboldt Current
The Humboldt Current, also called the Peru Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America.
See Cenozoic and Humboldt Current
Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
See Cenozoic and Industrial Revolution
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
Interglacial
An interglacial period (or alternatively interglacial, interglaciation) is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age.
International Commission on Stratigraphy
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), sometimes unofficially referred to as the "International Stratigraphic Commission", is a daughter or major subcommittee grade scientific daughter organization that concerns itself with stratigraphical, geological, and geochronological matters on a global scale.
See Cenozoic and International Commission on Stratigraphy
International Journal of Earth Sciences
International Journal of Earth Sciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media.
See Cenozoic and International Journal of Earth Sciences
Iridium
Iridium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ir and atomic number 77.
Isthmus of Panama
The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.
See Cenozoic and Isthmus of Panama
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
John Phillips (geologist)
John Phillips FRS (25 December 1800 – 24 April 1874) was an English geologist.
See Cenozoic and John Phillips (geologist)
Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
See Cenozoic and Kalahari Desert
Kelp
Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.
Late Cenozoic Ice Age
The Late Cenozoic Ice Age,National Academy of Sciences - The National Academies Press - Continental Glaciation through Geologic Times https://www.nap.edu/read/11798/chapter/8#80 or Antarctic Glaciation, began 34 million years ago at the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary and is ongoing.
See Cenozoic and Late Cenozoic Ice Age
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.
See Cenozoic and Late Cretaceous
Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
Limpopo River
The Limpopo River rises in South Africa and flows generally eastward through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
See Cenozoic and Limpopo River
Machairodontinae
Machairodontinae is an extinct subfamily of carnivoran mammals of the family Felidae (true cats).
See Cenozoic and Machairodontinae
Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.
Marine mammal
Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence.
See Cenozoic and Marine mammal
Mastodon
A mastodon ('breast' + 'tooth') is a member of the genus Mammut (German for "mammoth"), which, strictly defined, was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene.
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
See Cenozoic and Mediterranean Sea
Megatherium
Megatherium (from Greek méga 'great' + theríon 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.
Melendugno
D'Amely baronial Palace. Melendugno (Salentino: Melendugnu or Malandugnu) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.
Mesonychia
Mesonychia ("middle claws") is an extinct taxon of small- to large-sized carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls.
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. Cenozoic and Mesozoic are geological eras.
Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals.
Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Miohippus
Miohippus (meaning "small horse") is an extinct genus of horse existing longer than most Equidae.
Monotreme
Monotremes are mammals of the order Monotremata.
Monsoon
A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.
Namib
The Namib (Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
See Cenozoic and Nature (journal)
Neanderthal
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
Neogene
The Neogene is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period million years ago.
Niger River
The Niger River is the main river of West Africa, extending about. Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.
Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
See Cenozoic and North America
Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Online Etymology Dictionary
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
See Cenozoic and Online Etymology Dictionary
Orange River
The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is a river in Southern Africa.
Otodus
Otodus is an extinct, cosmopolitan genus of mackerel shark which lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
See Cenozoic and Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
See Cenozoic and Oxford University Press
Paleocene
The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), alternatively ”Eocene thermal maximum 1 (ETM1)“ and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or “Late Paleocene thermal maximum", was a geologically brief time interval characterized by a 5–8 °C global average temperature rise and massive input of carbon into the ocean and atmosphere.
See Cenozoic and Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
Paleogene
The Paleogene Period (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Ma.
Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Cenozoic and Paleozoic are geological eras.
Pangaea
Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
Pantodonta
Pantodonta is an extinct suborder (or, according to some, an order) of 150My, whereas pantodonts appared around c. 60My; this is equivalent to saying that 8 August is early in the year!--> eutherian mammals.
Paraceratherium
Paraceratherium is an extinct genus of hornless rhinocerotoids belonging to the family Paraceratheriidae.
See Cenozoic and Paraceratherium
Paracrax
Paracrax ("near curassow") is a genus of extinct North American flightless birds, possibly related to modern seriemas and the extinct terror birds.
Parts-per notation
In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction.
See Cenozoic and Parts-per notation
Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla is an order of ungulates.
See Cenozoic and Perissodactyla
Phanerozoic
The Phanerozoic is the current and the latest of the four geologic eons in the Earth's geologic time scale, covering the time period from 538.8 million years ago to the present.
Phorusrhacidae
Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct family of large carnivorous, mostly flightless birds that were among the largest apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era.
See Cenozoic and Phorusrhacidae
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
Primate
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes.
Pristichampsus
Pristichampsus (from πρῐ́στῐς, 'saw' and χαμψαι, 'crocodile') is a non-diagnostic and potentially dubious extinct genus of crocodylian from France and possibly also Kazakhstan that is part of the monotypic Pristichampsidae family.
See Cenozoic and Pristichampsus
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
See Cenozoic and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Pyrotheria
Pyrotheria is an order of extinct meridiungulate mammals.
Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Quaternary glaciation
The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.
See Cenozoic and Quaternary glaciation
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
Rhinoceros
A rhinoceros (rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae; it can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea.
Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
Salento
Salento (Salentino: Salentu, Salentino Griko: Σαλέντο), also known as Terra d'Otranto, is a cultural, historical and geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia, in southern Italy.
Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
See Cenozoic and Science (journal)
Sea otter
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.
Seed plant
A seed plant or spermatophyte, also known as a phanerogam (taxon Phanerogamae) or a phaenogam (taxon Phaenogamae), is any plant that produces seeds.
Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
See Cenozoic and South America
South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
See Cenozoic and Southeast Asia
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g.
See Cenozoic and Terrestrial animal
Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
Tethys Ocean
The Tethys Ocean (Τηθύς), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
Zagros Mountains
The Zagros Mountains (Kuh hā-ye Zāgros; translit; translit;; Luri: Kûya Zagrus کویا زاگرس or کوه یل زاگرس) are a long mountain range in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey.
See Cenozoic and Zagros Mountains
Zambezi
The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers, slightly less than half of the Nile's. The river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.
See also
1840s neologisms
- A land without a people for a people without a land
- Cenozoic
- Cuban fever
- Drang nach Osten
- Dumbwaiter
- Folklore
- Greek Revival architecture
- Guardian of the Threshold
- Infinite qualitative distinction
- Lisztomania
- Lumpenproletariat
- Manifest destiny
- Might makes right
- Nigger in the woodpile
- Opium of the people
- Property is theft!
- Psychopathy
- Psychosis
- Social murder
- The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
- Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
- Tramp
- Upper ten thousand
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- Women and children first
- Workers of the world, unite!
Geological eras
- Cenozoic
- Chaotian (geology)
- Eoarchean
- Erathem
- Mesoarchean
- Mesoproterozoic
- Mesozoic
- Neoarchean
- Neoproterozoic
- Paleoarchean
- Paleoproterozoic
- Paleozoic
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenozoic
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