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Prehistoric animals of the Cenozoic Era ... Quaternary animals (9 C) Pages in category "Cenozoic animals" This category contains only the following page.
Index fossils must have a short vertical range, wide geographic distribution and rapid evolutionary trends. Another term, "zone fossil", is used when the fossil has all the characters stated above except wide geographical distribution; thus, they correlate the surrounding rock to a biozone rather than a specific time period.
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]
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.
Prehistoric birds of the Late Quaternary−Holocene Epoch, in the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era. Pages in category "Late Quaternary prehistoric birds" ...
Cenozoic animals of Cenozoic Era Europe. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. ... Quaternary animals of Europe (2 C, 4 P) V.
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.