Directory of Cenozoic Resources

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The Cenozoic is the age of "New Life" - the age of the mammals. It began at the end of the Cretaceous with the great Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction, and continues until the present day. This category is for any website dealing with the study Cenozoic life as preserved in the fossil record.

Subcategories

• Calvert Cliffs
• Florissant Fossil Beds
• Green River
• Messel Shale

Resources in This Category

• A Collection of Eocene and Oligocene Fossils

  http://www.dmap.co.uk/fossils/
  Provides photographs of a number of fossils from various locations in the UK.

• Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/698
  UNESCO World Heritage Centre's webpage on two of Australia's few Cenozoic fossil assemblages and their information on the evolution of Australia's climate and mammals and the relations that humans have had with Australia's prehistoric fauna.

• European Caenozoic Contact Group

  http://users.telenet.be/cr42644/Caenozoic_fossils/index/
  International contact group which tries to link professional paleontologists with advanced amateurs to further mutual contact and cooperation.

• Natural History Museum | Exhibits | Prehistoric Mammals of the Cenozoic

  http://www2.humboldt.edu/natmus/e_PrehistoricMammals.html
  A slightly out-dated museum exhibit on the various groups of mammals that evolved during the present day Cenozoic era.

• New genus and species of galliforme bird from the Oligocene of Poland.

  http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/474.pdf
  Article on a new discovered bird species from the late Paleogene of Poland, and how it extends the known diversity of avians recovered from Eastern Europe's Paleogene basin.

• Palaeos Cenozoic: The Cenozoic

  http://palaeos.com/cenozoic/cenozoic.htm
  Introduction to the geology and paleontology of the Cenozoic.

• Paleocene mammals of the world

  http://www.paleocene-mammals.de/
  Site about the fossil mammals known from the Paleocene epoch. Contains an introduction to Paleocene mammals and a list of genera and species with their classification and taxonomy.

• Patterns in Palaeontology: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

  http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/articles/2011/the-paleocene-eocene-thermal-maximum/
  An online article on the paleontology of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. A brief, intense period of global warming that occurred about 56 million years ago, at the boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene epochs.

• Pleistocene Mammals

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pinpleist.html
  An image gallery of megafauna on display at the Russian Paleontological Institute.

• Pliocene

  http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/pliocene.html
  A short background.

• Tertiary Mammals

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pintert.html
  Exhibit of mammals from the Tertiary at the Paleontological Institute in Moscow.

• Tertiary Paleogeography

  http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/terpaleo.html
  Paleogeography of the American Southwest during the Paleogene and Neogene periods.

• The Cenozoic Era

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cenozoic/cenozoic.html
  An overview of the era from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.

• The Tertiary Research Group

  http://www.trg.org/
  London-based specialist geological society with an interest in the Tertiary period worldwide. Provides information on events, membership and the journals "Tertiary Research" and "Cainozoic Research".

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• Home > Science > Earth Sciences > Quaternary Studies
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