This is a reconstruction of the early Eocene (52 million-year-old) fauna that inhabited the rainforest around a northern British Colombia lake. The tapiroid Heptodon drinks in the shallows, while the ...
The Eocene is a formally defined epoch of the Paleogene Period within the Cenozoic Era, spanning approximately 56 to 34 million years ago, characterized by globally warm climates and high atmospheric ...