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Period: Neogene Epoch : Earliest Miocene ( Aquitanian ) to early Miocene ( Burdigalian ) in the eastern Florida panhandle, to middle Miocene ( Serravallian ) in northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, and to earliest Pliocene ( Zanclean ) in southern Florida, ~23 to ~3.6 mya a period of 19.4 million years [ 6 ]
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 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.
It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. These include the Socorro flora, notable for its fine preservation of plant reproductive structures. These include the Socorro flora, notable for its fine preservation of plant reproductive structures.
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 of the Neogene Period, during the Middle Cenozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Paleogene plants and the succeeding Category:Quaternary plants Subcategories
The establishment of a land-based flora increased the rate of accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, as the land plants produced oxygen as a waste product. When this concentration rose above 13%, around 0.45 billion years ago, [26] wildfires became possible, evident from charcoal in the fossil record. [27]
It preserves fossils dating back to the early to middle Miocene epoch of the Neogene period. It is one of the three formations which make up the Calvert Cliffs , all of which are part of the Chesapeake Group .