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Cenozoic Era: Timeline of Life

The Cenozoic Era spans from 66 million years ago to the present. It is the current era and is known as the Age of Mammals. Key periods in the Cenozoic include the Pleistocene from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, where large ice ages and megafauna like mammoths lived. The Pliocene from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago saw the emergence of large carnivores. The Miocene from 23 to 5.3 million years ago was marked by grasslands becoming abundant.
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Cenozoic Era: Timeline of Life

The Cenozoic Era spans from 66 million years ago to the present. It is the current era and is known as the Age of Mammals. Key periods in the Cenozoic include the Pleistocene from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, where large ice ages and megafauna like mammoths lived. The Pliocene from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago saw the emergence of large carnivores. The Miocene from 23 to 5.3 million years ago was marked by grasslands becoming abundant.
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Era & Epoch, age


(Mya), time Species
Period span (in Mya)
Epoch Holocene
Cenozoic
(recent life; age of mammals) Age/Mya 0.01
Quaternary Time --------
Span

Mammoth
Epoch Pleistocene
Cenozoic
(recent life; age of mammals) Age/Mya
Quaternary 1.8
[Link]
Time
Span 1.79
Tertiary[Link]

Epoch
Cenozoic Pliocene
(recent life; age of mammals) Large carnivores (bears, dogs,
cats) appear

Tertiary
Age/Mya 5.3
Time 3.5
Span
Miocene Hornless Rhine horn
Epoch
Cenozoic (grass
(recent life; age of mammals) abundant)
Tertiary Age/Mya 2.3
[Link]
[Link]

Time 17.7
Span
Oligocene Mesohippus
Cenozoic Epoch
(recent life; age of mammals) Age/Mya 33.9
Tertiary

[Link]
Time 10.9
Span
Eocene Mystacodon selenensis

Epoch (primitive horse,


Cenozoic bats and whales)
(recent life; age of mammals)
Tertiary
Age/Mya 55.8 [Link]

Time
Span 29.9
Cenozoic Colugos 

(recent life; age of mammals)


Epoch Paleocene
Tertiary (first primate,
lemuroids appear)
Age/Mya 65.5
Time 9.7 [Link]

Span

Epoch First mammals;


extinction of
Cretaceous dinosaurs, first
Mesozoic flowering plant
(middle life; age of dinosaurs)

Age/Mya 145

[Link]
Time
Span 7.5
Epoch flying reptiles
Pt
erosaur 

and first birds


Jurassic appear.
Mesozoic
(middle life; age of dinosaurs)
Age/Mya 200
Time
Span 55
[Link]

Epoch Dinosaur first CoelophysisPt


erosaur 

appears
Triassic
Mesozoic
(middle life; age of dinosaurs) Age/Mya 251
Time 51
Span [Link]

synapsid Lystrosaurus
Permian Epoch Pangaea comes
together Mass
Paleozoic (ancient life)
extinction
Age/Mya 299

Time 48
[Link]

Span
Ancient Dragonfly
Large nonflowering
Epoch plants/ dragonflies’
Pennsylvanian appearance
Paleozoic (ancient life)
Age/Mya 318
Time 19
Span [Link]

Large amount Evactinopora radiata


amphibians,
Mississippian Epoch extensive first,
Paleozoic (ancient life) sharks abundant,
and sea stars
common in ocean
Age/Mya 359
[Link]
Time 57
Span
Epoch First Giant Placoderm and Primitive Sharks

amphibians and
fishes
Devonian
Paleozoic (ancient life) Age/Mya 416
Time
Span 28
[Link]

Echinoderms Eurypterus

Epoch appear;
Silurian eurypterids
Paleozoic (ancient life) abundant, First
land plants
Age/Mya 444
Time
Span 28 [Link]

Orthocones

Ordovician First
Epoch vertebrate-fish
Paleozoic (ancient life) [Link]
Age/Mya 488
Time
Span 44
Ophabinia
Marine-shelled
Cambrian Epoch
Paleozoic (ancient life) invertebrate
Age/Mya 542
Time 52
Span
[Link]
1936221039

Epoch ----------
Proterozoic
(early life) Age/Mya 2500
(fossil remain of bacteria and
blue-green algae) Time 1958
Span
[Link]

Epoch ---------- [Link]


Archean_Eon_/archean_eon_.html
Archean
(Oldest fossils-apex chert and
Age/Mya 3800
stromatolites)
Time 1300
Span
Epoch ----------
Hadean
(beginning of the earth) Age/Mya 4600
Time 800
Span
[Link]

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