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Messinian Stage Eocene paleogeography geologic time Tertiary paleogeography Cenozoic migration routes Mediterranean Sea Perito Moreno Glacier Near-Earth object: impact Diatryma Phenacodus
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Messinian Stage
Eocene paleogeography
geologic time
Tertiary paleogeography
Cenozoic migration routes
Mediterranean Sea
Perito Moreno Glacier
Near-Earth object: impact
Diatryma
Phenacodus
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Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
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Jean-Baptiste-Julien d’ Omalius d’Halloy
Belgian geologist