The family level of plants may be more diverse than animals, so that's why you don't get the massive losses of these big groups, because some element of them finds a way to survive extinction.' When ...

In turn, the extinction of the dinosaurs and several other animal groups 65.5 million years ago defines the beginning of the Cenozoic era. We are including several pages with geologic time scale data ...

In the early Cenozoic era, after the dinosaurs became extinct ... new species that adapt to these vacant living spaces. The extinction of the dinosaurs was one such major event, eliminating ...

High sea levels may have been responsible for a number of extinctions among primates during ... Covert, H.H. Biology of early Cenozoic primates. In Comparative Primate Biology, Systematics ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs ... replaced those that had died off in earlier mass extinctions. But the biggest development in the ...