Paleogene

Question number 20.

The New Stone Age, which started around 10,200 BC, is also referred to as what? Is it Paleogene, Mesozoic, or Neolithic? The correct answer is Neolithic.

Question number 21.

Before his solo fame, which of these bands did Peter Frampton belong to? Was it Humble Pie, Bad Company, or Free? The correct answer is humble pie.

And bottom line is that during the Cretaceous and Jurassic, we can argue on the specifics and nitty-gritty, but at the end of the day, the largest animal is always going to be a Sarpod.

well at least probably and just like the ichthyosaurs it seems like the sauropods still had gas in the tank when they abruptly met their demise 66 million years ago after the kt extinction event ripped the earth a whole new one along with ending the sauropod experiment the asteroid also ushered in the cenozoic in its first period the paleogene immediately after the impact which also lasted until 23 million years ago For a long time, the debate of the Paleogene's largest creature was quite an interesting and close one, as it is the only period in which the fight was actually between a land animal and a marine one, with the terrestrial champion being the giant hornless rhino, Paracerotherium, which lived from 34 to 23 million years ago throughout Eurasia, and was somewhat like a giant stocky giraffe, standing nearly 16 feet tall at the shoulders and weighing between 15 to 20 tons.

Whereas the ocean's champ was the Bacillusaurus, a predatory whale armed with one heck of a nasty bite and being kind of shaped like a mosasaur.

Naturally, it wasn't as tall as the rhino, but it was longer, measuring up to 66 feet or 20 meters and weighing up to 15 tons, possibly a bit more.

So there's a string of carbonatites up the west coast of Europe that sort of marked the beginnings of the rifting between Greenland and North America.

But then the main part was during the Paleogene and you have this big basaltic province in central western Greenland and also central eastern Greenland as well.

When you say Paleogene, you mean about 50 million years ago? I'm guessing.

Yeah, closer to 60.

60 million years ago.

After all, it lasted for tens of millions of years and a lot has happened.

The Cenozoic is divided into three periods, the Paleogene, the Neogene and the Quatern.

Let's take a quick look at these.

This was the beginning of the Cenozoic.