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Evolution Flashcards

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Quaternary Period

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present to 2 mya

Age of Man

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Tertiary Period

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2-65 mya

Age of mammals

modern animals and plants, cooler and drier climate

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Cretaceous Period

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65-136 mya

Decline of Dinosaurs

modern insects, placental mammals, flowering plants spread

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Jurassic Period

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136-190 mya

Dynasty of the dinosaur

dinosaurs dominated, animals fly, warm humid climate

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Triassic Period

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190-225 mya

Dawn of Dinosaur

forests gymnosperms and ferns dominate, first mammal and dinosaur

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Permian Period

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225-280 mya

Triumph of the reptile

50% of life perished, reptiles were dominant, conifers appeared

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Pennsylvanian Period

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280-320 mya

Age of amphibians

retiles appeared, coal formations, mild climates

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Mississippian Period

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320-345 mya

Age of crinoids

amphibians dominate

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Devonian Period

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345-395 mya

Age of Fish

seed ferns and insects appear, jawed fish dominate, amphibians invade land

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Silurian Period

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395-430 mya

Age of Eurypterids

low vascular plants appear on land

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Ordovician Period

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430-500 mya

Dawn of the Vertebrae

oldest known vertebrae’s appear

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Cambrian Period

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500-570 mya

Age of the Trilobite

invertebrates fossils dominate, abundant fossil records

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Recent Epoch

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present- 0.01 mya

Age of Human civilization

destruction of tropical rain forests

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Pleistocene Epoch

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0.01-2 mya

Modern human Appear

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Pliocene Epoch

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2-6 mya

Age of mastodons (first hominids)

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Miocene Epoch

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6-24 mya

Age of the horses (grasslands spread )

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Oligocene Epoch

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24-37 mya

Angiosperms evolve

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Eocene Epoch

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37-58 mya

Dawn of the horses
modern orders or horses

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Paleocene Epoch

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58-65 mya

Age of archaic mammals

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