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Cenozoic Era, mammals diversified rapidly and quickly colonised all areas…
Cenozoic Era
Alpine orogeny
Alps
Caucasus
Pyrenees
Himalayan
Examples
Nummulites
Micromammals
(book)
Mesohippus
Smilodon
K-T extintion
mammals and flowering plants replaced reptiles and gymnosperms
mammals colonised land and water
group of dinasour descendants (birds) dominated the air
Periods
Quaternary
climate cooled
great ice sheets spread
across the continents of the Northern Hemisphere
18 glaciations
variations of 150 metres in sea level
Mid-Tertiary
India hit southern Asia
Arabia hit Turkey
Caused the Himalayas to rise
The Antartic ice cap was formed
continents form Pangea start colliding
66 million years-present day
mammals diversified rapidly and quickly colonised all areas of the planet
