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Paleogene mammals of the Eocene epoch Subcategories. This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. ... Pages in category "Eocene mammals" The ...
The term "Eocene" is derived from Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs) meaning "Dawn", and καινός kainos meaning "new" or "recent", as the epoch saw the dawn of recent, or modern, life. Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (ignoring the Quaternary) divided the Tertiary Epoch into the Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, and New Pliocene Periods in 1833.
Animals of the Eocene Epoch – during the Middle Paleogene Period ... Pages in category "Eocene animals" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
"They probably evolved during the Paleocene epoch, the 10-million-year interval between the end of the Mesozoic era and the Eocene epoch," Jones said, describing a time of incredible evolutionary ...
Uintatherium ("Beast of the Uinta Mountains") is an extinct genus of herbivorous dinoceratan mammal that lived during the Eocene epoch. Two species are currently recognized: U. anceps from the United States during the Early to Middle Eocene (56–38 million years ago) and U. insperatus of Middle to Late Eocene (48–34 million years ago) China.
Cetaceans are fully aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla and branched off from other artiodactyls around 50 mya. Cetaceans are thought to have evolved during the Eocene (56-34 mya), the second epoch of the present-extending Cenozoic Era.
Certain creodonts (Arfia, Prolimnocyon and Palaeonictis) seem to have experienced the dwarfing phenomenon during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum seen in other mammal genera. A proposed explanation for this phenomenon is that the increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere directly affected carnivores through increased temperature and ...
The Eocene is the second series/epoch of the Paleogene, and lasted from 56.0 Ma to 33.9 Ma. ... Some of these mammals evolved into large forms that dominated the land