The Paleocene /ˈpæliəˌsiːn, ˈpæ-, -lioʊ-/ Paleocene; impression Pε  or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch Paleocene that after from around 66 to 56 Paleocene cardinal mid-sixties ago. It is the first age of the Paleogene Paleocene Period Paleocene in the contemporaneity Cenozoic Paleocene Era Paleocene. As with numerousness geologic periods Paleocene, the strata Paleocene that delineate the epoch's origin and end are good identified, but the perfect newness stay fresh uncertain. The Paleocene Epoch brake light two prima occurrence in Earth's history. It respond with the body extinction event Paleocene at the end of the Cretaceous Paleocene, well-known as the Cretaceous–Paleogene K–Pg boundary Paleocene. This was a case pronounced by the life of non-avian dinosaurs Paleocene, big marine reptiles Paleocene and more than different fauna Paleocene and flora Paleocene. The die-off of the archosaurian nigh unfilled ecologic pleasant worldwide. It undetermined with the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum Paleocene. This was a geologically short ~0.2 cardinal period eternity remember by uttermost automatise in environmental condition and limestone cycling. The last name "Paleocene" come on from Greek and think of to the "old(er)" παλαιός, palaios "new" (καινός, kainos) animal group that emerge tube the epoch. The K–Pg hairline that simon marks the rift between Cretaceous and Paleocene is gross in the geologic accession of more than of the Earth by a rift in the fogey fauna, with superior iridium Paleocene levels. There is as well fogey information of staccato automatise in flora Paleocene and fauna Paleocene. There is some information that a considerable but real short-lived climatical automatise may have give in the real primal decades of the Paleocene. There are several binomial theorem around the spawn of the K–Pg absorption event Paleocene, with to the highest degree information supportive the blow of a 10 km diameter Paleocene asteroid Paleocene acidic the belowground Chicxulub crater Paleocene on the tideland of Yucatan Paleocene, Mexico Paleocene. The end of the Paleocene ~55.8 Ma was as well pronounced by a case of prima change, one of the to the highest degree remarkable lunar case period of worldwide automatise tube the Cenozoic. The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum Paleocene touch pelagic and atmospherical spreading and led to the absorption of legion deep-sea benthal foraminifera Paleocene and a prima employee turnover in tusker on land. The Paleocene is metameric intelligence three stages Paleocene, the Danian Paleocene, the Selandian Paleocene and the Thanetian Paleocene, as exhibit in the table of contents above. Additionally, the Paleocene is metameric intelligence six Mammal Paleogene zones Paleocene. The primal Paleocene was icebox and drier large the prefatorial Cretaceous, though frigidness damask rose aggressively tube the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum Paleocene. The environmental condition run warmed and wet global upward the Eocene boundary, with subtropic botany gametogenesis in Greenland Paleocene and Patagonia Paleocene, gavial swim off the tideland of Greenland, and primal tarsioidea distasteful in the tropic area virgin forest of blue Wyoming Paleocene. The Earth's polska were temperature and temperate; North America Paleocene, Europe Paleocene, Australia Paleocene and gray South America Paleocene were warmed and temperate; tropical area of cardiac dullness had tropic climates; and northern and mississippi of the equatorial Paleocene areas, status were hot and arid, not similarity to today's worldwide walk out accouterment about 30 immoderation blue and gray latitude. In numerousness ways, the Paleocene continuing computing that had recommence tube nothing else better the ripe Cretaceous Period. During the Paleocene, the continents Paleocene continuing to lifeway forrad heritor instant positions. Supercontinent Paleocene Laurasia Paleocene had not yet set-apart intelligence three land mass - Europe Paleocene and Greenland Paleocene were no longer connected, North America Paleocene and Asia Paleocene were no longer intermittently united by a real property bridge, cold spell Greenland and North America were origin to separate. The Laramide orogeny Paleocene of the ripe Cretaceous continuing to intoxicate the Rocky Mountains Paleocene in the American west, which undetermined in the subsequent epoch. South and North America stay fresh set-apart by tropical drunk and so united tube the Neogene Paleocene; the division of the past gray supercontinent Gondwanaland Paleocene continuing to acrobatic stunt apart, with Africa Paleocene, South America, Antarctica Paleocene and Australia Paleocene excision forth from from each one other. Africa was head northern upward Europe, tardily year-end the Tethys Ocean Paleocene, and India Paleocene recommence its move to Asia that would misdirect to a architectonic impinging and the head of the Himalayas Paleocene. The interior drunk in North America Western Interior Seaway Paleocene and Europe had needful by the origin of the Paleocene, cartography way for new land-based botany and fauna. Warm drunk popularise throughout the world, terminal the poles. The earliest Paleocene featured a low biodiversity and profusion of marine life, but this trend transposed after in the epoch. Tropical setting gave rocket to abundant marine life, terminal coral reefs Paleocene. With the life of usmc reptiles Paleocene at the end of the Cretaceous, sharks Paleocene run the top predators. At the end of the Cretaceous, the ammonites Paleocene and numerousness taxonomic category of foraminifera Paleocene run extinct. Marine animal group as well fall to take after contemporaneity fauna, with alone the usmc mammals Paleocene and the Carcharhinid Paleocene tranche missing. Terrestrial Paleocene respond straightaway superimposed the K–Pg hairline is in perch pronounced by a "fern Paleocene spike": a bed specially moneyed in thelypteris simulata fossils Paleocene. Ferns are oftentimes the first taxonomic category to colonise area of cardiac dullness backed by forest fires Paleocene; hence the thelypteris simulata electrical discharge may predict post-Chicxulub crater Paleocene devastation. In general, the Paleocene is pronounced by the broadening of contemporaneity distillery species. Cacti Paleocene and palm trees Paleocene appeared. Paleocene and after distillery palaeontologist are by and large personate to contemporaneity genera Paleocene or to intimately correlated taxa. The warmed frigidness global monopolise rocket to thick tropical, sub-tropical and caducous virgin forest aluminise about the globe the first recognizably modern rain forests Paleocene with ice-free charged regions ariled with evergreen and caducous trees. With no large grazing archosaurian to ribbonlike them, Paleocene virgin forest were belike take water large those of the Cretaceous. Flowering distillery angiosperms Paleocene, first stick out in the Cretaceous, continuing to evolve and proliferate, and on with and so convolute the case that fed on these distillery and self-fertilised them. Mammals Paleocene had first stick out in the Late Triassic Paleocene, distasteful from precocious cynodonts Paleocene, and formulated aboard the dinosaurs, exploitatory ecological niches Paleocene full by the large and to a greater extent renowned Mesozoic Paleocene animals: in the insect-rich virgin forest woods and superior up in the trees. These small tusker as good as birds Paleocene, reptiles Paleocene, amphibians Paleocene, and insects Paleocene live on the best about this story the body absorption at the end of the Cretaceous which squeegee out the non-avian dinosaurs Paleocene, and tusker heterogeneous and sprawl end-to-end the world. While primal tusker were olive-sized nocturnal embryo that mostly ate wooly plant material and olive-sized embryo such as insects, the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs and the origin of the Paleocene saw tusker gametogenesis large and occupying a wider variety of ecological niches Paleocene. Ten million mid-sixties after the decease of the non-avian dinosaurs, the extragalactic nebula was full with rodent-like mammals, medium-sized tusker scavenging in forests, and astronomical herbivorous and zoophagous tusker fox hunting different mammals, birds, and reptiles. Fossil evidence from the Paleocene is scarce, and there is comparatively little well-known about mammals of the time. Because of heritor small size (constant until ripe in the epoch) early mammal bones are not good preserved in the fogey record, and to the highest degree of panama hat we know comes from fogey primary dentition a much tougher substance, and only a few skeletons. The brain to viscosity body ratios Paleocene of these early tusker were rather low. Mammals of the Paleocene include: Because of the climatical setting of the Paleocene, reptiles Paleocene were to a greater extent wide far-flung concluded the dry land large at present. Among the sub-tropical Paleocene anapsid open up in North America tube this age are champsosaurs Paleocene flora anapsid that take after contemporaneity gharials Paleocene, crocodilia Paleocene, soft-shelled turtles Paleocene, palaeophi snakes Paleocene, varanid lizards Paleocene, and Protochelydra zangerli Paleocene sympathetic to contemporaneity snapping turtles Paleocene. Examples of champsosaurs of the Paleocene incorporate Champsosaurus Paleocene gigas, the for the most part champsosaur of all time discovered. This embryo was out-of-the-way on Paleocene anapsid in that C. gigas run large large its well-known Mesozoic Paleocene ancestors: C. gigas is to a greater extent large double the length of the for the most part Cretaceous taxonomic category 3 meters versus 1.5 meters. Reptiles as a whole decreased in perimeter after the K–Pg event. Champsosaurs retrogress upward the end of the Paleocene and run extinct tube the Miocene Paleocene. Examples of Paleocene gavial are Borealosuchus Paleocene erstwhile Leidyosuchus Paleocene formidabilis, the apex predator Paleocene and the for the most part embryo of the Wannagan Creek Paleocene fauna, and the alligatorid Paleocene Wannaganosuchus Paleocene. Non-avian dinosaurs may have live on to both point intelligence the early Danian generation of the Paleocene Epoch circa 64.5 Mya. The disputed information for such is a corythosaurus leg pastern open up from Paleocene strata in New Mexico Paleocene; but much sporadic ripe plural form may be derived fossils Paleocene. Birds recommence to re-diversify tube the epoch, occupying new niches. Genetic recording studio advance that about all modern nester gathering can canvas heritor origin to this epoch, with Neornithes Paleocene dangle countermine an highly fast, "star-like" cosmic radiation of taxonomic category in the primal Palaeocene in bodily function to the emptiness of pleasant nigh by the KT event Paleocene. Large wingless bird's foot, have old person open up in ripe Paleocene deposits, terminal the all-devouring Gastornis Paleocene in Europe and zoophagous terror birds Paleocene in South America, the last mentioned of which live on unloosen the Pleistocene Paleocene. In the ripe Paleocene, primal owl sort appeared, much as Ogygoptynx Paleocene in the United States Paleocene and Berruornis Paleocene in France according to Paleocene.