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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 spans from 23.03 million to 2.58 million years ago. It features two epochs: the Miocene, and the Pliocene. [23] The Miocene Epoch spans from 23.03 to 5.333 million years ago and is a period in which grasses spread further, dominating a large portion of the world, at the expense of forests.
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 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.
Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeography), and the evolutionary history of plants, with a bearing upon the evolution of life in general.
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 .
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 ...
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"