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Bio 2

Published on Nov 19, 2015

Era project

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CENOZOIC

PERIODS: PALEOGENE, NEOGENE, & QUATERNARY

TIME OF CENOZOIC ERA

  • Started 66 million years ago
  • It is still going on

BEGGINING EVENTS

  • Land and water animals seperated and started to thrive
  • Ex: whales start to appear in th oceans & coral starts thriving
  • Dinosours went exctinct
  • Mammals start to adapt and thrive
  • Ex:small horses flightless birds and elephants start to appear
Photo by lalo_pangue

ENDING EVENTS

  • Extinction of mammals; mainly large ones
  • Ex: wooly mamaths saber tooth tigers and giant deer
  • Ice age happens
  • Ice age- ice sheets spread towards equator making ne land forms
  • Primates and humans are introduced to the world
Photo by .:Adry:.

SIGNIFICANT ORGANISMS

  • Whales
  • Elephants (wooly mamaths)
  • Primates
  • Humans
  • Mammals in general
Photo by gidovd

INTERESTING FACTS

  • Cenozoic means new life
  • Known as the Age of Mammals
  • Dinosaurs went extinct in this era