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    Cretaceous Period. This period consists of the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs. The end of the Paleocene (56 Mya) was marked by the Paleocene–Eocene...
    23 KB (2,374 words) - 17:57, 17 April 2024
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    sedimentation of the Vasquez Formation occurring between the later portion of the Oligocene Epoch to the lower Miocene Epoch, each respectively 33.9-23 million years...
    20 KB (1,931 words) - 21:11, 1 April 2024
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    Geology of the Alps (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from September 2009)
    the northward-moving African landmass. Most of this occurred during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. The pressure formed great recumbent folds, or nappes...
    29 KB (3,650 words) - 15:24, 5 March 2024
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    of Forbidden City, USA) – phasianid? †"Palaeorallus" alienus (middle Oligocene of Tatal-Gol, Mongolia) †Anisolornis (Santa Cruz Middle Miocene of Karaihen...
    62 KB (5,409 words) - 01:56, 23 February 2024
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    Spirurina, and Trichocephalida have been discovered in coprolites from the Oligocene-aged Tremembé Formation, which represented a palaeolake in present-day...
    69 KB (7,446 words) - 02:45, 19 April 2024
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    of Bleau. The boulders in Fontainebleau are erosive remnants from the Oligocene age, relatively young in geological terms. Their appearance may have been...
    11 KB (1,198 words) - 14:49, 8 August 2023
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    1921 Genus Maroubra Whitley, 1948 Genus †Maroubrichthys Parrin, 1992 (Oligocene of Russia) Genus Micrognathus Duncker, 1912 Genus Microphis Kaup, 1853—freshwater...
    19 KB (2,143 words) - 04:26, 17 April 2024
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    Whale shark (category Extant Oligocene first appearances)
    popular culture Shark sanctuary Shark Alliance U.S. Shark Conservation Act Grey nurse shark conservation Save Our Seas Foundation Category WikiProject...
    63 KB (6,844 words) - 03:10, 3 April 2024
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    North America, with the earliest occurrences in Europe during the Early Oligocene. The genus Salix is made up of around 350 species of deciduous trees and...
    51 KB (5,827 words) - 20:30, 17 January 2024
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    plateau's altitude was around 3,000 metres above sea level around the Oligocene-Miocene boundary and that it fell by 900 metres between 25.5 and 21.6...
    40 KB (4,761 words) - 14:35, 19 April 2024
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    Nightjar (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from July 2019)
    that the extinct family Archaeotrogonidae, known from the Eocene and Oligocene of Europe, are the closest known relatives of nightjars. Traditionally...
    16 KB (1,596 words) - 16:25, 30 March 2024
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    west of the Rhine, on its left bank. It is a rift or graben, from the Oligocene epoch, associated with its horsts: the Vosges and the Black Forest. The...
    92 KB (9,845 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
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    after types of shark teeth in the world. This shark lived during the late Oligocene epoch and Neogene period, about 28 to 1.5 million years ago, and ranged...
    24 KB (2,757 words) - 10:56, 3 March 2024
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    ; Schorn, H.E. (1990). Taxonomic revision of the Spermatopsida of the Oligocene Creede flora, southern Colorado (Report). Bulletin. Vol. 1923. United...
    29 KB (2,144 words) - 17:21, 10 March 2024
  • of the World. Houghton Mifflin (1995), ISBN 978-0-395-72043-1 Jacamaraçu; WikiAves. del Hoyo, Elliott & Sargatal. Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume...
    82 KB (8,607 words) - 19:52, 13 April 2024
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    collisions (and associated foldings and subductions) that occurred during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs (34 to 5.33 mya); see animation: Africa-Arabia colliding...
    152 KB (15,363 words) - 00:28, 10 April 2024
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    Morelet's crocodile (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from August 2022)
    the extinct Voay of Madagascar, around 25 million years ago, near the Oligocene/Miocene boundary. Below is a cladogram based on a 2018 tip dating study...
    29 KB (2,742 words) - 19:58, 1 April 2024
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    Marie-Galante have basements probably composed of volcanic units of Eocene to Oligocene, but there are no visible outcrops. On Grande-Terre, the overlying carbonate...
    118 KB (11,123 words) - 22:44, 9 April 2024
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    establish its own identity. Dominica first emerged from the sea during the Oligocene era approximately 26 million years ago, making it one of the last Caribbean...
    102 KB (10,164 words) - 11:30, 13 April 2024
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    End-Capitanian Carnian Pluvial Toarcian End-Jurassic or Tithonian Aptian Cenomanian-Turonian Eocene–Oligocene Middle Miocene Pliocene–Pleistocene Quaternary...
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