Cenozoic Life Age of Flowers

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Cenozoic LifeAge of Flowers Mammals
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Oceans
Similar to Mesozoic with new predators
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Sharks DiversifyMegalodon
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Sharks DiversifyMegalodon
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Birds Diatryma
phororhachids
Diatrymidae
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Titanis Hipparian
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Birds Move to the Water
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Angiosperm Diversification
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The Oligocene Rise of Grass
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Herbs Weeds
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Grasses/Herbsled to coevolution of

• Grazers - modifications to
• Teeth
• Four-chambered stomach
• Shape of the Head
• Legs - faster runners (hooved animals)
• Predators - adapted to hunting in the open
  (speed)
• Rodents and Songbirds - grain eaters
• Snakes - predators adapted to hunting in burrows

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Grass, Rodents Birds
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Snakes
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Mammal Evolution
Eutheria (Placentals)
Marsupials
Cretaceous
Multituberculates
Cretaceous
Placenta
Monotremes
Late Jurassic
Live Birth
Early Mammals
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Mammal Phylogeny
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MonotremesEgg-Laying Mammals
Platypus
Echidna
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MultituberculatesExtinct Line of Mammals
Taeniolabis
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PlacentaModified Amniotic Membrane
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MarsupialsPouched Mammals
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Cretaceous Marsupials Alphadon
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Pliocene Marsupials Procoptodon
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Convergent Evolution
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Eutheria
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Mammal Phylogeny
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Rodents
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Ungulates (Hooved Animals)
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Perissodactyls(Odd-Toed Ungulates)
Horses - Tapirs - Rhinos
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Hipparion
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Merychippus
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Wooly Rhino - Coelodonta
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Blue Lake Rhino
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Artiodactyls (Even-toes Ungulates)
Cows - Camels - Deer - Hippos - Pigs - Giraffe
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Irish Elk
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Proboscids
Elephants - (Gomphotheres)
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Wooly Mammoths Platybelodon
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Carnivora
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Creodonts
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Mammals Return to the SeaCetaceans, Pinepeds
Sirenians
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Pakicetus Ambulocetus
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Basilasaurus
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Whale Evolution
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Insectivores
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Primates
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Mammal Phylogeny
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Primate Ancestor - Tree Shrew
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Primate Relations
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Paleocene Primate- Plesiadapis
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Eocene Primate- Notharctus
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