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Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CENOZOIC ERA

PALEOGENE, NEOGENE, QUATERNARY

BEGINNING TIME

  • 66 million years ago
  • Why? Land and water separated & began to thrive
  • Dinosaurs went extinct
  • Mammals began to adapt
Photo by Swami Stream

ENDING TIME

  • Still present
  • Extinction of mammals
  • Ice age occurred
  • Primates and humans adapted
Photo by jw_creations

SIGNIFICANT ORGANISMS

  • Mammals
  • Wooly mammoths
  • Whales
  • Humans

INTERESTING FACTS

  • Cenozoic means "new life"
  • Known as the Age of Mammals