Time/ Periods
Period lasting 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene period to the Quarternary period.
What is the Neogene period?
animals that went extinct in this era.
what are terror birds?
During the Neogene period: North and South America became connected due to the formation of the ______ of Panama
what is the Isthmus?
In the Neogene Period polar ice became ______ and _______ more space in the ocean.
What is thicker and occupied?
The Neogene period percentage of all geological time
What is 0.45%?
animals developing during this time.
What are hominids?
Rocks formed in California during this period
what is the Mulholland formation?
Sea levels fell as a result of ________ temperatures and continental collision.
What is Cooling
How many years has is been since the Neogene period started?
When grasses diversified
What is Herbivorous mammals evolving alongside it?
The migrating of animals due to the conection of continents North and South America.
What is the Great American Faunal Interchange
The reduction in sea levels created land bridges between continents, this enabled land animals to _____ across continents and sea animals to sometimes evolve apart.
what is Migrate?
Epoch that is also sometimes considered part of the Neogene time period
What is the Pleistocene
marine life existing in this period.
What are baleen whales, sea lions, seals, walruses and sea cows and also Non-mammalian predators including marine crocodiles, and the megalodon?
India colliding into Asia was creating
What is the Himalayan Mountains
During the Neogene period global climate _______ considerably causing continental glaciers moving as far from the poles as 40 degrees latitude later on in the quaternary period .
what is cooled?