System/ Period |
Series/ Epoch |
Stage/ Age |
Age (Ma) | |
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Neogene | Miocene | Aquitanian | younger | |
Paleogene | Oligocene | Chattian | 23.03–28.1 | |
Rupelian | 28.1–33.9 | |||
Eocene | Priabonian | 33.9–38.0 | ||
Bartonian | 38.0–41.3 | |||
Lutetian | 41.3–47.8 | |||
Ypresian | 47.8–56.0 | |||
Paleocene | Thanetian | 56.0–59.2 | ||
Selandian | 59.2–61.6 | |||
Danian | 61.6–66.0 | |||
Cretaceous | Upper/ Late |
Maastrichtian | older | |
Subdivision of the Paleogene Period according to the ICS, as of January 2013.[1] |
The second epoch of the Paleogene period, between the Paleocene and Oligocene. It lasted from 55.8-33.9 mya.[2]
Flora[]
- Banksia[2]
- Florissantia[2]
- Lygodium[2]
- Macginitea[2]
- Metasequoia[2]
- Osmunda[2]
- Picea[2]
- Plantanus[2]
- Podocarpus[2]
Fauna[]
Birds[]
- Aegialornis
- Aegialornis gallicus
- Aegialornis wetmorei
- Amitabha
- Amitabha urbsinterdictensis
- Arthropornis
- Arthropornis grandis
- Arthropornis nordenskjoeldii
- Archaeospheniscus
- Lopdell's Penguin, Archaeospheniscus lopdelli
- Archaeospheniscus wimani
- Avolatavis
- Avolatavis tenens
- Colymbiculus
- Colymbiculus udovichenkoi
- Dasornis
- Dasornis emuinus
References[]
- ^ Cohen, K.M., Finney, S., Gibbard, P.L. (2013), International Chronostratigraphic Chart, International Commission on Stratigraphy, http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2013-01.pdf.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ambrose, Jack; et al. (2012). Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual Guide. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 9780756699109.
- ^ a b c S. R. Manchester. 1992. Flowers, fruits, and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct Malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America. American Journal of Botany 79(9):996-1008
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