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18 Cards in this Set
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Eon's
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Proterozoic
Phanerozoic - 545 mya-present |
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Era's
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Paleozoic - Early vertebrates "fishes"
Mesozoic - Dinosaurs Cenozoic - Age of mammals |
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Period's
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Cambrian
Ordovician Silurian Devonian Mississippian Pennsylvanian Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Paleogene Neogene Quaternary |
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Epoch's
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Paleocene
Eocene Oligocene Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene |
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Major Biotic Events
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Cambrian explosion - 543 mya
Dino's appear, first mammals, turtles - 248 mya 1st appearance of birds - 175 mya flowering plants - 144 mya KT extinction - 65 mya Hominines - 10 mya Modern humans, Bison, Mammoths - 2 mya |
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the cenozoic encompasses what periods and epochs
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period - paleogene neogene and quaternary
epoch - paleocene, eocene, oligocene, miocene, pliocene, pleistocene |
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mesozoic encompasses what periods and epochs
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periods - triassic, jurassic, creaceous
epochs - none |
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the paleozoic encompasses what periods and epochs
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period - cambrian, ordovician, silurian, devonian, mississippian, pennsylvanian, permian
epochs - none |
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the cenozoic was the age of
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mammals
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the mesozoic was the age of
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dinosaurs
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the paleozoic was the age of
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early vertebrates "fish"
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when was the cambrian explosion
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cambrian (543)
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when did the dinosaurs first appear
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triassic (248)...along with first mammals and first turtles
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when was the first appearance of birds
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jurassic (208)
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when was the first appearance of flowering plants
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cretaceous (144)
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when was the KT extinction
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paleogene - paleocene (65)
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when did hominines arise
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neogene - pliocene (5)
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when did modern humans, bison and mammoths arise
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neogene - pleistocene (2)
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