Cenozoic era Flashcards by Lucas S | Brainscape

Q

Periods

A

Tertiary and quarternary

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Epochs of the tertiary period

(PEOMP)

A

Paleocene (70MYA)
Eocene (60MYA)
Oligocene (40MYA)
Miocene (30MYA)
Pliocene (14MYA)

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Epochs of the quartenary period

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Pleistocene (3MYA)
Recent/Halocen (10-20KYA)

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What happened in the tertiary period?

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Rise and decline of forests
Manlike apes
Rise of great mammals

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What happened in the quaternary period?

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Pleistocene

Four ice ages
Primitive man
Mammoths

Recent

Rise of herbaceous plants
The neolithic man began to settle

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