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1. the Tertiary period
Wikipedia definition
2. TertiaryTertiary is an officially deprecated but still widely used term for a geologic period from 65 million to 2.6 million years ago, a time span that lies between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary. The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic Era, spanning to the beginning of the most recent ice age, at the end of the Pliocene Epoch. The Tertiary also included the early Pleistocene.
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