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...t diverging lineage of living mantises. Fossil genera are known from the [[Paleogene]] of Eurasia and North America. ...st1=Schubnel |first1=Thomas |last2=Nel |first2=André |date=2019 |title=New Paleogene mantises from the Oise amber and their evolutionary importance |journal=Act ...

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|48.6|0|[[Paleogene]] - Recent}} ...Europe, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and Australia from [[Paleogene]] to recent (age range: 48.6 to 0.0 million years ago).<ref>[https://paleob ...

...he Cymatoceratidae and Hercoglossidae became extinct near the end of the [[Paleogene]] while the Aturiidae reached into the [[Neogene]]. Only the Nautilidae rem [[Category:Extant Late Triassic first appearances]] ...

...cene|Recent]] {{Fossil range|84|0|ref=<ref>{{cite journal |last= Sepkoski |first= Jack |title= A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes ...which are typically weakened in areas closer to the surface. While the two extant species are similar in external appearance, they differ internally.<ref>{{C ...

...ller]], 1785<ref name="ICZN">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Hemming |editor1-first=Francis |title=Opinion 320: Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the ge '''''Limulus''''' is a genus of [[horseshoe crab]], with one extant species, the [[Atlantic horseshoe crab]] (''Limulus polyphemus''). One fos ...

...to be distinct from the other families in this [[taxon]]. The related and extant families, [[Anhimidae]] ([[screamer]]s) and [[Anatidae]] ([[duck]]s, [[goos ...before all other ducks, geese and swans.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Livezey |first=Bradley C. |year=1986 |title=A phylogenetic analysis of recent anseriform g ...

...the [[squamosal]] bone.<ref name="Clark1994">{{cite book | last = Clark | first = J. M. | title = Patterns of evolution in Mesozoic Crocodyliformes In N.C. ...(2007).<ref name="Fiorelli & Calvo, 2007">Fiorelli LE, Calvo JO. 2007. The first "protosuchian" (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Cretaceous (Santonia ...

...[[crown group]] osteoglossids that are more closely related to one of the extant osteoglossid subfamilies than the other, though their exact position varies ...]]. The traditionally defined wider family includes several [[Extant taxon|extant]] species from South America, [[African arowana|one from Africa]], two from ...

...losely related to ''[[Clinitrachus]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bannikov |first=A. F. |date=1998 |title=New Blennioid Fishes of the Families Blenniidae and id:paleogene value:rgb(0.99,0.6,0.32) ...

...onian]]) [[Akrabou Formation]] of Morocco.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Roberts|first=Emily A.|last2=Martill|first2=David M.|last3=Loveridge|first3=Robert F.|dat ...s of the United States of America 97:4086–4091</ref> The ancestors of the extant gymnosperm orders—Gnetales, Coniferales, Cycadales and Ginkgoales—arose dur ...

...tive to the [[Northern Hemisphere]]. It contains 9 [[Genus|genera]] and 89 extant species. Common characteristics of this group include a reduced supratempor ...in North America during the Cretaceous before dispersing to Europe in the Paleogene. ...

...oup of common [[food fish]]. The order consists of about 33 species in six extant families, mostly deep-sea types. The boarfishes ([[Caproidae]]) have been p ...finities remain uncertain.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nolf |first=Dick |date=2003 |title=Fish otoliths from the Santonian of the Pyrenean fau ...

..., [[Umbridae]] and [[Esocidae]].<ref name=":1322">{{Cite web |last=Fricke |first=R. |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=W. N. |last3=Van der Laan |first3=R. |date=2025 ...r group [[Salmonidae|Salmoniformes]] about 110 million years ago, with the extant species having evolved from a common ancestor that lived about 90 million y ...

...found worldwide in shallow and deep saltwaters.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bray |first=Dianne |title=Family Uranoscopidae |url=http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au ...onic muscles.<ref name="Alves-Gomes 2001">{{cite journal|last=Alves-Gomes |first=J. A. |title=The evolution of electroreception and bioelectrogenesis in tel ...

...00 / Classification, Family Rheidae |access-date=Feb 4, 2009 |last=Brands |first=Sheila |date=August 14, 2008 |work=Project: The Taxonomicon |df=dmy-all}}</ ...t genera.<ref name=mayr2009>{{cite book |author=Mayr, G. |year=2009 |title=Paleogene fossil birds |publisher=Springer}}</ref> ...

...efined with only 3 species.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Brownstein |first=Chase D. |last2=Near |first2=Thomas J. |date=2025-04-25 |title=Toward a Phy ...], the beginning of the [[Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event]].''<ref name="JPAcipenseridae">{{Cite journal |last1=Hilt ...

...1 |issn=0891-2963|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and the youngest from [[Paleogene]]-aged strata.<ref name=TsuTyp /><ref name=Archibald>Archibald, S. Bruce, A ...also observed feeding on plant material.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Palmer |first=Christopher |date=2010 |title=Diversity of feeding strategies in adult Meco ...

...[[didelphimorph]]s.<ref name = "Nilsson">{{Cite journal | last = Nilsson | first = M. A. |author2=Churakov, G.|author3=Sommer, M.|author4=Van Tran, N.|autho ...cies of shrew-opossum (Paucituberculata: Caenolestide) with a phylogeny of extant caenolestids |journal=Journal of Mammalogy|volume=94 |issue=5 |pages=967–98 ...

...fossilrange|56|0}} [[Eocene]] to Present<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=J. |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of ...camouflage by ventral counterillumination<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hastings|first=J.W.|date=1971|title=Light to Hide by: Ventral Luminescence to Camouflage t ...

...Anthracotherium|volume=2|page=106}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gorsel |first=J. T. (Han) van |date=January 2014 |title=An introduction to Cenozoic macro ...as been found that these anthracotheres are in three dietary categories of extant herbivores: leaf browsers, fruit browsers, and grazers.<ref>{{Cite journal ...