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What was the two new plants that came during the mesozoic era?
There were actually three types of plants that evolved in the Mesozoic. Cycads and ginkgos evolved around the late Triassic and early Jurassic. The firsts flowering plants appear in the fossil record during the early Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era.
What are two events from the Mesozoic era?
Events during the Mesozoic include the increasing dominance of dinosaurs. The Mesozoic is marked by the appearance of flowering plants.
What are two major biological events in mesozoic era?
The Rocky Mts. Formed and Pangea started to break apart
What are two reptiles returned to the sea during the mesozoic era?
icthyaurs
What are two ways the climate has change since the Mesozoic?
During the Cretaceous, flowering plants and deciduous trees came into their own. After the Mesozoic ended, grasses, which may have existed as far back as the Jurassic, but in very subordinant roles, began to dominate the unforested areas.
Was the mesozoic era during the precambrien era?
No. The Precambrian Era extended from 4.5 billion years ago to 542 million years ago. The Mesozoic Era lasted from 251 million years ago to 65 million years ago. The Paleozoic Era came in between the two.
What are the two reptiles that existed during the Mesozoic Era and still live today?
Crocodiles and Snakes.
What is the era before the Mesozoic Era?
The Paleozoic era was from 540 million years ago to about 245 million years ago. After that came the Mesozoic era, and that lasted from the end of the Paleozoic to 65 million years ago, when the earth entered the Cenozoic era.
What is the Mesozoic Era marked by?
The Mesozoic Era is the second era in the Phanerozoic Eon, and is one of three, the two other eras being the Paleozoic (which came before) and the Cenozoic (which came after). This is why it is called the Mesozoic, which is Greek for "middle life." The Mesozoic lasted from approximately 250 to 65 million years ago, and is subdivided into three geologic periods: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. The era began after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction and ended with the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. The Mesozoic is perhaps best known for being the "age of the dinosaurs," the era in which dinosaurs arose and came to dominate the Earth. Flowering plants also appeared towards the end of this era. At this time mammals and birds first evolved, but would not diversify that much until the Cenozoic Era. The Mesozoic was much warmer, and the supercontinent of Pangea separated and was drifting apart to form the modern continents.
What era was dominated by reptiles?
Funny you asked. The reptiles dominated from the permian to cretaceous period. The answer is the mesozoic era. There are three geological eras: paleozoic, mesozoic and the Cenozoic. We are currently in the Holocene epoch of the quaternary period of the Cenozoic era.
What two main types of reptiles existed in the Mesozoic Era?
Crocodiles and snakes
Carboniferous period was subdivided into what two periods?
Mesozoic era and Cenozoic Era
