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Early in the Tertiary Period, the land masses were shaped roughly as we see them today and approached their present global positions. Nova Scotia was located on the eastern coast of the North American continent at the edge of the ever-widening Atlantic Ocean.
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Tertiary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tertiary is a term for a geologic period 65 million to 2.588 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary. The period began wi...
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Tertiary period (tûr'shēer"ē) [key], name for the major portion of the Cenozoic era, the most recent of the geologic eras (see Geologic Timescale, table) from around 26 to 66 million years ago. The name Tertiary was first applied about the middle of the 18th cent.
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In geologic time, the Tertiary Period (also sometimes referred to in terms of a Paleogene Period and a Neogene Period), represents the first geologic period in the Cenozoic Era. The Tertiary Period spans the time between roughly 65 million years ago (mya) and 2.6 mya.
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What animals and plants lived during the Tertiary period? ... Dr. dig responds:; The Tertiary period belongs to the Cenozoic era. During the Cenozoic era, which is still in progress, mammals and birds have taken over the many vacant slots left by the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
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