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Eocene–Oligocene transition

Global cooling, Antarctic glaciation and habitat reorganization coincided with major mammalian and marine faunal turnover.

Represented range34.2–33.5 Ma
RegionsGlobal · Europe · Antarctica
CladesPerissodactyla · Artiodactyla · marine plankton

Claim ledger

event-mechanism · high

Pacific marine records resolve stepwise earliest Oligocene ice growth, while the Hampshire Basin mammal record separates regional turnover, a roughly 350 kyr hiatus and later Asian immigrant appearances; the records are complementary, not proof of one simple causal chain.

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References

  1. Rapid stepwise onset of Antarctic glaciation and deeper calcite compensation in the Pacific OceanCoxall, H.K.; Wilson, P.A.; Pälike, H.; Lear, C.H.; Backman, J. · 2005 · DOI 10.1038/nature03135
  2. Eocene–Oligocene mammalian faunal turnover in the Hampshire Basin, UK: calibration to the global time scale and the major cooling eventHooker, J.J.; Collinson, M.E.; Sille, N.P. · 2004 · DOI 10.1144/0016-764903-091
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