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The North American land mammal ages (NALMA) establishes a geologic timescale for North American fauna beginning during the Late Cretaceous and continuing through to the present. These periods are referred to as ages or intervals (or stages when referring to the rock strata of that age) and were established using geographic place names where ...
The Cenozoic is also known as the Age of Mammals because the terrestrial animals that dominated both hemispheres were mammals – the eutherians in the Northern Hemisphere and the metatherians (marsupials, now mainly restricted to Australia and to some extent South America) in the Southern Hemisphere. The extinction of many groups allowed ...
Artist's depiction of the end-Cretaceous impact eventSince the 19th century, a significant amount of research has been conducted on the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era and set the stage for the Age of Mammals, or Cenozoic Era.
Late Cretaceous mammals (3 C, 3 P) E. ... Cretaceous mammal stubs (112 P) Pages in category "Cretaceous mammals" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of ...
Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic mammals of North America biostratigraphy and geochronology. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231503785. Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia; Cifelli, Richard L.; Luo, Zhe-Xi (2004). Mammals from the age of dinosaurs origins, evolution, and structure. New York: Columbia University. pp. 19–108. ISBN 9780231509275.
Land-mammal ages mostly represent intervals in the Cenozoic; they have not been proposed for the Mesozoic. However, related systems have been proposed for other periods of prehistory. Land-vertebrate "ages" (LVAs) based primarily on dinosaur faunas have been proposed for the late Cretaceous in western North America. [12]
Pages in category "Late Cretaceous mammals of North America" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Late Cretaceous–Eocene: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming A medium-sized crocodilian genus that lived into the Eocene. Borealosuchus sternbergii is the most basal out of the six species in the genus and the one known from the Cretaceous. †Brachychampsa †Brachychampsa montana; 83.5–63.3 Ma Hell Creek Formation ...