The current era, opening the moment the Chicxulub impact ended the Mesozoic, and holding the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs among others; the age of mammals, including us. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Start (Million Years Ago)Marked by the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary per the cited article. End (Million Years Ago)The Cenozoic is the current, ongoing era; 0 Mya marks the present day, the standard geologic timescale convention for an open upper boundary. Key EventThe rise of mammals into the ecological space the non-avian dinosaurs left empty, continuing to the present day. 1 Cenozoic
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The Cenozoic is commonly known as the Age of Mammals because the terrestrial animals that dominated both hemispheres were mammals
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is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66 million years of Earth's history
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