GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Palaeocene
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Eocene
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Oligocene
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Miocene
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Eocene epoch is part of the Tertiary Period in the Cenozoic Era, and lasted from about 54.8 to 33.7 million years ago (mya).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Tertiary Period began about 66 million years ago with a mass extinction that ‘clocked’ the dinosaurs and ended when the ice ages of the Quaternary Period began, about 2.6 million years ago. These dates have been adjusted as science advances or when new evidence is found.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Eocene is the second of five epochs in the Tertiary Period-the second of three epochs in the Paleogene-and lasted from about 55.8 to 33.9 million years ago. * The oldest known fossils of most of the modern orders of mammals appear in a brief period during the early Eocene and all were small, under 10 kg.