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The KT Event set the stage for the Cenozoic Era Cenozoic Era that began 65 million years ago. As the dinosaurs perished at the end of the Cretaceous, the mammals took center stage. Even as mammals increased in numbers and diversity, so too did the birds, reptiles, fish, insects, trees, grasses, and other forms of life.
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1 What life forms roamed the earth during the Cenozoic Era? Look around you. Almost every type of flora (plant life) and fauna (animal life) on Earth has been around since the dawn of the Cenozoic Era. 2 During the early Cenozoic Era, forests covered most of North America.
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Notes for the leader/teacher for The Earth Science Lesson Plans The Cenozoic Era: The Cenozoic Era is ... The Mesozoic Era came next. Life developed in very different conditions from the Paleozoic. There was more land and less sea, so animal and plant species developed that could live without being surrounded by water.
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The Cenozoic is the most recent of the three major subdivisions of animal history. Second, the diversity of life during the Cenozoic is far wider than mammals. The Cenozoic could have been called the "Age of Flowering Plants" or the "Age of Insects" or the ... Click on the buttons below to learn more about the Cenozoic Era.
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cenozoic/cenozoic.html
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Cenozoic era (sēnuzō'ik, sen–) [key], last major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, table) lasting from ... The animal life of the Cenozoic was dominated by mammals, which were most numerous in the Tertiary period and declined, with the exception of a few specialized types, in the Quaternary period.
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Cenozoic era , last major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale , The animal life of the Cenozoic was dominated by mammals, which were most numerous in the Tertiary period and declined, with the exception of a few specialized types, in the Quaternary period . Theories explaining the decline or extinction...
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4. Cenozoic (the "Age of Mammals"): ... The Cambrian explosion probably generated over 100 major animal groups with fundamentally different body plans, ... Recent data shows that 8 of 27 orders of insects, 21 of 27 families of reptiles, 6 of 9 families of amphibians and most of the terrestrial plant life disappeared at this time.
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An intro to the Cenozoic era, includes a review of each of the geological sub-divisions and the various forms of life that lived during this time ... The Cenozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon: the last 65.5 million years ... Cenozoic Mammals: Guilds and Trends - annotated links page from Richard Cowen's History of Life site...
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www.palaeos.com/Cenozoic/Cenozoic.htm
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Spring Semester 2008; The Cenozoic Era III: Quaternary Geology ... Migration of animal and plant species ... Plant Life of the Cenozoic: Paleocene floras very similar to Cretaceous, with increasing abundance of angiosperms.
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