第三纪（英语：Tertiary Period），是古近纪及新近纪的旧称。国际地层委员会（International Commission on Stratigraphy）已不再承认第三纪是正式的地质年代名称，并拆分为古近纪与新近纪两个时期。

在过去，古近纪和新近纪也曾分别被叫做早第三纪和晚第三纪。

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.58 million years ago, a time span that lies between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary. The Tertiary is no longer recognized as a formal unit by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, but the word is still widely used. The traditional span of the Tertiary has been divided between the Paleogene and Neogene Periods and extends to the first stage of the Pleistocene Epoch, the Gelasian age.