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Prehistoric plants of the Neogene Period, during the Middle Cenozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Paleogene plants and the succeeding Category:Quaternary plants Subcategories
The Neogene (/ ˈ n iː. ə dʒ iː n / NEE-ə-jeen, [6] [7]) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period 23.04 million years ago to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period 2.58 million years ago.
The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...
The Miocene (/ ˈ m aɪ. ə s iː n,-oʊ-/ MY-ə-seen, -oh-) [6] [7] is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words μείων (meíōn, "less") and καινός (kainós, "new") [8] [9] and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates ...
The Neogene Period is a unit of geologic time starting 23.03 Ma. [10] and ends at 2.588 Ma. The Neogene Period follows the Paleogene Period. The Neogene consists of the Miocene and Pliocene and is followed by the Quaternary Period.
By the Devonian Period, the colonization of the land by plants was well underway. The bacterial and algal mats were joined early in the period by primitive plants that created the first recognizable soils and harbored some arthropods like mites, scorpions and myriapods. Early Devonian plants did not have roots or leaves like the plants most ...
Prehistoric plants that lived during the Miocene epoch, of the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era For the preceding, see Category: Oligocene plants . For the succeeding, see Category: Pliocene plants .
Prehistoric plants that lived during the Pliocene epoch, in the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Miocene plants and the succeeding Category:Pleistocene plants Pages in category "Pliocene plants"