Which unit of geologic time began 65.5 million years ago and continues to the present?

The Cenozoic era began about 65.5 million years ago, after the end-Cretaceous extinction, and continues to the present. The Mesozoic era came before it; the Permian is a period within the earlier Paleozoic era, and Precambrian time is much older.

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