Mesozoic Era or age of dinosaur and reptiles “middle life”

Warm and dry temperature

Cretaceous period began to cool

Coniferous, evergreen trees and cycads

possess enclosed seed capsule

Triassic Period

90% species were extinct

Survived great dying then populated the earth again

Animals- sea urchins, mollusks, coiled shelled ammonities

First Mammals. Eozostrodon fed youngs mother milk

Jurassic Period

Warm wet climate, gave rise to vegetation

Pangea continued to break

Allosaurus- walk on two power legs

Brachiosaurus- eating plants sauropod

Cretaceous Period

Longest period of phanerozoic eon

Sauropods- common in south less in north

Iguanodon- everywhere except antarctica

Triceratops- horned beast

Tyrannosaurus Rex- dominated in north

Spinosaurus- thrived in south huge sail like fin

Pterosaur soared overhead

Ended in mass extinction called cretaceous-Paleogene extinction

Cenozoic Era

Age of Mammals

Tertiary Period

K-T Boundary

Dramatic evolutionary exapansion

Paleogene Period- ancient bon

Paleocene Epoch

Eocene Epoch-dawn

Oligocene Epoch- few recent forms

Neogene Period- new born

Miocene Epoch- six ages of rock oldest to young (

Pliocene Epoch- one of the major worldwide

Quaternary Period- ice age

Age of Humans

Pleistocene- earlier abd major in quaternary

Holocene Epoch- formerly epoch