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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) boundary, formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) boundary, is a geological signature, usually a thin band of rock...
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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters...
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    the Gulf of Mexico. The end of the Cretaceous is defined by the abrupt CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary), a geologic signature associated with...
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  • The climate across the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg or formerly the K–T boundary) is very important to geologic time as it marks a catastrophic...
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  • of the world, known as the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–T boundary). K is the traditional abbreviation for the Cretaceous Period derived from the German...
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    Chicxulub crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    date of the impact coincides with the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (commonly known as the K–Pg or K–T boundary). It is now widely accepted that the devastation...
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    century, a significant amount of research has been conducted on the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated...
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    of diverse animals in the wake of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event that ended the preceding Cretaceous Period. This period consists of the Paleocene...
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    unusually high abundance of iridium in the clay layer at the CretaceousPaleogene boundary gave rise to the Alvarez hypothesis that the impact of a massive...
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    Madtsoiidae (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    Hoffstetter, 1960; Paleogene, Late Paleocene Las Flores Formation; Argentina) Madtsoia madagascariensis Hoffstetter, 1961a (Piveteau, 1933; Cretaceous, Maastrichtian...
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