P R E H IS TO R E C AFTER THE DINOSAURS by David West Smart Apple Media
Equator India 65 mya 35 mya 65 million years ago mya 55 34 PALEOCENE PALEOGENE Terror birds 55 mya global warming India collides with The Azolla event rule the world raises the Earth's Asia 55 to 45 49 mуa brings see pages 8 9 temperature by 11°F 6°C million years ago long term cooling The Cenozoic Era The era began in the wake of the Cretaceous Paleogene extinction event K Pg event at the end of the Cretaceous that saw the extinction of the dinosaurs The Cenozoic era is also known as the Age of Mammals because the extinction of many animal groups allowed mammals to diversify The Cenozoic era is divided into three periods the Paleogene Neogene and Quaternary These are further divided into seven epochs the Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene and
Equator Equator Isthmus of Panama 20 miya 0 65 mya 24 2 5 0 15 Today OUIGOCENE MIOCENE PLIOCENE PLEISTOCENE HOLOCENE NEOGENE QUATERNARY A global expansion of South America joins North Ice Age begins grasslands and a regression America through the Isthmus of 2 58 mya of tropical broadleaf forests Panama during the Pliocene LIFE DURING THE CENozoic ERA In the earlier part of the Cenozoic era the world was dominated by the giant terror birds and terrestrial crocodiles As the forests began to recede and the climate began to cool mammals took over The Cenozoic Era is full of giant mammals including chalicotheres creodonts entelodonts saber toothed cats mastodons mammoths and rhinoceros like Indricotheriums The oceans were also home to giant mammals and fish such as Megalodon a shark that grew to 98 feet 30
