FACTS

 Most recent period of the

Cenozoic era, beginning 0.2
million years ago and extending
to the present.

 It is divided into the

Pleistocene epoch, characterized
by a periodic succession of great
Ice Ages, and the Holocene
epoch, which started some
10,000 years ago.
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 The first period of the
Cenozoic Era, which began 65 Ma
ago and lasted approximately 63.2
Ma.
 The Tertiary period began with
the demise of the non-avian
dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–
Tertiary extinction event, at the
start of the Cenozoic era, and
lasted to the beginning of the
most recent Ice Age at the end of
the Pliocene epoch.
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 The Cretaceous Period was the

last and longest segment of the
Mesozoic Era. It lasted
approximately 79 million years.

 It followed the Jurassic Period

and was succeeded by the
Paleocene Period (the first of the
two periods into which the
Tertiary Period was divided).
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 The Jurassic Period was the

second segment of the
Mesozoic Era. It occurred from
199.6 to 145.5 million years ago,

 Following the Triassic Period and

preceding the Cretaceous Period.
During the Jurassic Period, the
supercontinent Pangaea split apart.
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 The Triassic Period was the

first period of the Mesozoic Era.

 A lot happened to Earth and its

life-forms during the Triassic but
the most celebrated event was the
evolution of dinosaurs.

 It ran from 248 to 200 million

years ago.
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 The Permian period, which
ended in the largest mass
extinction the Earth has ever
known, began about 299 million
years ago.
 The emerging supercontinent
of Pangaea presented severe
extremes of climate and
environment due to its vast size.
The south was cold and arid, with
much of the region frozen under
ice caps.
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 The Pennsylvanian Period

lasted from 320 to 286 million
years ago.

 During the Pennsylvanian

Period, widespread swamps laid
down the thick beds of dead plant
material that today constitute
most of the world's coal.
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 The Mississippian Period, also

known as Lower Carboniferous or
Early Carboniferous

 It is the earliest/lowermost of
two subperiods of the
Carboniferous period lasting from
roughly 358.9 to 323.2 million
years ago.
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The Devonian Period lasted
from 417 million years ago to 354
million years ago. It is also known
as “The Age of Fish”.
 It is named for Devon, England
where the old red sandstone of
the Devonian was first studied.
 During the Devonian there
were important changes in the
land masses on the globe.
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 Silurian Period occurred from

443 million to 416 million years
ago.

 Underwater life thrived during

this period.
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 The Ordovician Period began

about 505 million years ago and
lasted for about 67 million years.

 The period was named by the

British geologist Charles Lapworth
in 1879
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 The Cambrian Period is the

first geological time period of the
Paleozoic Era

 This period lasted about 53

million years and marked a
dramatic burst of evolutionary
changes in life on Earth, known as
the "Cambrian Explosion."