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During the Cenozoic, mammals proliferated from a few small, simple, generalised forms into a diverse collection of terrestrial, marine, and flying animals, giving this period its other name, the Age of Mammals. The Cenozoic is just as much the age of savannas, the age of co-dependent flowering plants and insects, and the age of birds. [40]
The Quaternary (/ k w ə ˈ t ɜːr n ə r i, ˈ k w ɒ t ər n ɛr i / kwə-TUR-nə-ree, KWOT-ər-nerr-ee) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the Phanerozoic eon. [3]
Prehistoric animals of the Cenozoic Era ... Quaternary animals (9 C) Pages in category "Cenozoic animals" This category contains only the following page.
Quaternary animals of Oceania (6 C, 1 P) Quaternary animals of South America (4 C, 5 P) I. Quaternary invertebrates (4 C, 1 P) Q. Pleistocene animals (8 C, 3 P) V.
Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest flying animals to ever live, first appears in the fossil record. c. 66.038 ± 0.011 Ma – Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period marks the end of the Mesozoic era and the age of the dinosaurs; start of the Paleogene Period and the current Cenozoic era.
Life of the Quaternary period of geologic time, between 2.58 million years ago and the present time, during the Cenozoic Era ... Quaternary animals (9 C) F.
Cenozoic animals of the Cenozoic era in North America ... Quaternary animals of North America (3 C, 4 P) V. Cenozoic vertebrates of North America (5 C) W.
Prehistoric animals of the Pleistocene epoch, existing between 2.58 million and 11.7 thousand years ago, during the early Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Pliocene animals