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The Cenozoic

Era

Created by: Hannah Willmarth, Hailey Hudgens, Tristan Brits, and Anthony Lopez

The Cenozoic Era

The Cenozoic Era is the era, this is the era that we live in, now. So far it has lasted 66 million years to present day. The era before the Cenozoic was the Mesozoic era. The Cenozoic era has 3 periods the, Paleagena, Neogene, and the Quaternary.

Cenozoic Era

66 million to the present day today

Overview

In the Paleolgene period, the landscape started changing and vast oceans stretched across the Earth. The Rocky Mountains started to take shape around 300 million years ago. The weather in the Paleolgene was like a tropical rain forest.

Paleagena Period

65-23 million years ago

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Overview

In the Neogene period, the ocean levels started to rise and the ocean creatures started to evole. The Himalayes Moutain and the Alps started to form around 50 million years ago. In the Neogene, it was like a other Ice Age. the weather started dropping.

Neogene Period

23-2.6 million years ago

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Overview

In the Qauternary period, the climate got warmer, which brought a lot a species to go extinct. Since the temperatures got warmer some of the edible plants started to grow and the discovery of the first huminiod.

Quaternary Period

2.6 million to present day

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Climate

Cenozoic period was much warmer than it is today. Climate was much more cosistent reguardless of the length to the eqautor. Each part of the Cenozoic period experienced diffrent climates Palogene period it was tropical then, the Neogene period was very cool, and then the Qauternary period came along and it is the same weather we have, now

Climate

The Paleolgene Period Weather

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The Neogene period weather

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The Quetenary period weather

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Continent Position

In the Cenozoic era the ocean levels rose and dropped meanwhile the continents slowly moved into the postion they are today.

Continent Position

Early Cenozoic

Early Cenozoic

Middle of the Cenozoic

Middle Cenozoic

Current Cenozioc

Current Day

Animals in the Era

The Cenozoic Era is also know as the Age of Mammals A lot has changed in animals from the begining of the era to the present. For example at the begining of the era there were woolly rhinoeroses but now we have animals like dogs and cats.

Animals in the Era

Animals at the Begining of the Era

Animals in the Present Era

Plants in the Era

The plants in this era are simular to the plants we have now. Some of the plants are pines, moses, oaks, grasses, flowering plants, eblibe crops, ferns, conifers, gingos, cycads, palm trees, and evergreen trees.

Plants in the Era

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Sources

  • www.livescience.com
  • phenomena.nationalgeographic.com
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenozoic

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