Paleocene Epoch, also spelled Palaeocene Epoch, first major worldwide division of rocks and time of the Paleogene Period, spanning the interval between 66 million and 56 million years ago. The Paleocene Epoch was preceded by the Cretaceous Period and was followed by the Eocene Epoch. The Paleocene is subdivided into three ages and their corresponding rock stages: the Danian, Selandian, and Thanetian.
Marine rocks of Paleocene age are relatively limited in occurrence, and as a consequence much of the information about this epoch comes from terrestrial deposits. The most complete picture of Paleocene terrestrial life and environments is afforded by the rock record of North America; elsewhere, Paleocene animals, especially mammals, are lacking or rare or are only of late Paleocene age. Prominent faunal remains of the late Paleocene Epoch are known from the regions of Cernay, France; Gashato, Mongolia; and the Chico River of Patagonian Argentina.
The climate of North America during the Paleocene Epoch was characterized by a general warming trend with little or no frost. Seasonal variations probably can best be described as alternations of dry and wet seasons.
One of the most striking features of vertebrate life in the Paleocene Epoch was the complete absence of dinosaurs and other reptilian groups that were dominant during the preceding Cretaceous Period. Another striking feature was the rapid proliferation and evolution of mammals. Paleocene mammals included representatives of many groups or orders that still exist today, though the Paleocene forms were mostly archaic (that is, descended from yet earlier forms) or highly specialized. Paleocene mammals included Cretaceous species such as opossum-like marsupials and, especially, the archaic and unusual multituberculates—herbivorous animals that had teeth very similar in some respects to those of the later, more advanced rodents. The condylarths—hoofed animals that were very important members of the Paleocene animal kingdom—included forms that were evolving toward herbivorousness while still retaining insectivorous-carnivorous traits of their Cretaceous ancestors. Primates became more abundant in the middle Paleocene; they displayed characteristics intermediate between the insectivores and the lemurs, especially in their dental anatomy.
Late in the Paleocene, mammalian evolution showed a trend toward larger forms and more varied assemblages. Primitive mammalian carnivores—notably the creodonts (a group of catlike and doglike animals)—appeared, as did large herbivores, ancestral rodents, and the first known supposed primates. The Gashato fauna from Mongolia contains the remains of the earliest known hare (Eurymylus), and among Paleocene mammal remains from South America are many early representatives of animals that became dominant in subsequent epochs of the Paleogene Period.
Life in the early Paleocene oceans took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to recover from the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period, but by Late Paleocene times many groups of marine invertebrate animals had diversified considerably, including mollusks and plankton. Highly fossiliferous marine sediments from the Upper Paleocene are well known along the Gulf and Atlantic coastal plains of North America.
The Early Paleocene: Earth After the Dinosaurs :shocked-dino:
Paleocene Epoch geologypage :failure:
Early Cenozoic Life- Megalodon Roamed, Mammals go Back to Sea, Huge Birds Hunt Horses | GEO GIRL :bird-wat:
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favorite paleocene creature?
probably the Terror birds/Phorusrhacidae :bird-wat:
probably same. i also like these guys
It’s a process…a lot of things kind of have to synergize, like finding a way to redirect bad energy into a productive flow (for me it’s kind of a controlled anger in public), use that flow to put off the bad feelings until later, and then when you have the space, work on your comfort, connections, and self esteem.
Like right now, I’m talking to you, but I feel like shit. But talking to you is helping me redirect that bad energy into a productive flow. And when I feel like I’m in a safe space to deal with my angst, I’ll vent or find a shoulder to cry on and get it out of my system. Then comes the hard part, where you work on your reasoning for feeling the way you do and building a plan of how you want to deal with it. In that part you have to find someone you trust or learn to trust yourself. A lot of the time, the things affecting us aren’t personal failings, but things in our environment that project themselves on us due to the individualizing alienation of our society. But even when things are our fault, it can help to look at them as opportunities to grow and improve. Other people will try to place it all on character, but that’s just an easy shortcut so they don’t have to go through the effort of working with you to fix the issue.
In the end, I think the biggest part of it is safety. If you feel safe in yourself, or in your community, however large or small it is, all these other parts feel much easier to deal with.
Step 1. Go through horrendous shit as a child for many years and learn to shut down
Step 2.
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