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The second epoch of the Paleogene period, spanning 56 million to 33.9 million years ago. It opened with a sharp global warming spike, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, and saw the diversification of early modern mammal groups before a long term cooling trend set in toward its end.
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