Cenozoic | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-23

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00:01:23 1 Nomenclature
00:01:58 2 Divisions
00:03:01 2.1 Paleogene Period
00:06:15 2.2 Neogene
00:08:22 2.3 Quaternary
00:10:39 3 Animal life
00:11:54 4 Tectonics
00:12:59 5 Climate
00:14:34 6 Life
00:16:24 7 See also



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The Cenozoic Era () meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.
The Cenozoic is also known as the Age of Mammals, because the extinction of many groups allowed mammals to greatly diversify so that large mammals  dominated it. The continents also moved into their current positions during this era.
Early in the Cenozoic, following the K-Pg extinction event, most of the fauna was relatively small, and included small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. From a geological perspective, it did not take long for mammals and birds to greatly diversify in the absence of the large reptiles that had dominated during the Mesozoic. A group of avians known as the "terror birds" grew larger than the average human and were formidable predators. Mammals came to occupy almost every available niche (both marine and terrestrial), and some also grew very large, attaining sizes not seen in most of today's mammals.
The Earth's climate had begun a drying and cooling trend, culminating in the glaciations of the Pleistocene Epoch, and partially offset by the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.