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Answer 1

The assumption would be that the fossil dates from the cenozoic era. somewhere between 65 million and 50 million years old

Explanation:

According to the assumptions of the geological record the last dinosaur died about 65 million years ago. This date marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs.

The Cenozoic Era is often called the age of the mammals. It is believed that only primitive mammals existed during the Mezoic Era known as the age of the dinosaurs.

Geological strata is dated using fossils. So a fossil that was less advanced than the first ape, but shown characteristics of a mammal would be dated younger than 65 million years and older than 50 million years, the age that it is thought that the first ape came into existence.

Based on the assumptions of the neo Darwinian theory of evolution the fossil would be dated between 65 million and 50 million years old.