Lesson 3.3: Life's Diversity Flashcards
Life’s diversity exploded _______
500 MYA
The paleozoic era lasted from
543 - 248 MYA
The Paleozoic era is where the
Periods under this era
More complex eukaryotic cell arise
first vertebrate on land is formed.
Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Permian
Cambrian period period lasted from _______ MYA.
Highlights
543-490
Invertebrate animals flourished
sponges, jellyfish, worms
first animals with hard bodies.
Life on land developed during
Ordovician and Silurian periods
first land plants and vertebrates appeared during the
Ordovician period (490-443 MYA).
Silurian period (______ MYA) highlights
443-417
first plants with vascular tissue arose,
highlights of Devonian period (________) MYA
417-354
age of fishes, fishes with skeleton
mass extinction of sea life took place.
fish with powerful fins and lung move onto land.
highlights of carboniferous period ______MYA
354-290 MYA
-age of amphibians
-Ferns and early seed plants flourished.
highlights Permian period _______MYA
290-248
-ended with the largest mass extinction in due to global climate (inc co2, deplete of O)
Mesozoic era _____MYA, highlights
Age of reptiles
248-65 MYA
the first birds, mammals, and flowering plants developed
Jurassic period (206-144 MYA)
Cretaceous period
(144-65)
-great biological change
-mass extinction of dinosaurs due to asteriod
Cenozoic era
65 MYA-present
-AGE OF MAMMALS
During the ____ and _____ marsupials, monotremes, and placental mammals became common.
paleogene (65-23) and neogene (23-2.58)