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17 Cards in this Set
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4 eras
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Pre-cambrian, paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic
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7 periods of Paleozoic
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Cambrian, ordovician, silurian, devonian, mississippian, pennsylvanian, permian
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3 periods of Mesozoic
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Triassic, jurassic, cretaceous
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2 periods of Cenozoic
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Quaternary, tertiary
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Precambrian era
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single cell organisms
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Cambrian period
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Marine invertibrates
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Ordovician period
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First fish
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Silurian period
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First land plants
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Devonian period
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First insect fossil and amphibians
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Mississippian period
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Swamp forests
First winged insects and wing flexing |
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Pennsylvanian period
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"Age of roaches"
insect orders: 7 now extinct, 4 living (Thysanura, orthoptera, blattodea, ephemeroptera) |
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Permian period
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"Age of insects)
Coleoptera, and hemiptera appear Complete metamorphosis |
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Triassic period
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first dinosaurs
hymenoptera |
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Jurassic period
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first bird and mammals
diptera |
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Cretaceous period
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flowering plants -> pollination
Lepidoptera & isoptera amber insects |
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Tertiary period
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Mammals common
1/2 of today's insect genera fleas |
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Quaternary
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Glaciation, first humans
lice |
