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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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    amount of research has been conducted on the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era...
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    011 Ma. The K–Pg boundary is associated with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, a mass extinction which destroyed a majority of the world's Mesozoic...
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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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    Cretaceous (along with the Mesozoic) ended with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, a large mass extinction in which many groups, including non-avian dinosaurs...
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    impact 66 million years ago, believed to be the cause of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Small objects frequently collide with Earth. There is an...
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    posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event was caused by the...
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    the Cretaceous in Australia (e.g., Koolasuchus). CretaceousPaleogene extinction event (End Cretaceous, K–Pg extinction, or formerly K–T extinction): 66 Ma...
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    Titanoboa (category Paleogene Colombia)
    following the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, being one of the largest reptiles to evolve after the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Its vertebrae...
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  • the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg or formerly the K–T boundary) is very important to geologic time as it marks a catastrophic global extinction event...
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