Cenozoic is not a major period of the geologic time scale. The scale is broken down into eras. Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic are all part of the Phanerozic era.
The information the geologic scale provides is animals and fossils over time and periods. Major divisions of time is called eras.
This period is called holocene.
epochs
fossil record geologic time scale
fossil record geologic time scale
The information the geologic scale provides is animals and fossils over time and periods. Major divisions of time is called eras.
This period is called holocene.
A period is smaller than an era in the geologic time scale. It is further subdivided into epochs and ages.
The shortest division in the geologic time scale is an Epoch. Epochs are subdivisions of a period and are typically tens of millions of years long.
epochs
fossil record geologic time scale
fossil record geologic time scale
fossil record geologic time scale
Penguins first appeared during the Paleocene epoch, which is part of the Cenozoic era in the geologic time scale. This period lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago.
Each era on the scale is separated from the next by a major event or change. Different spans of time on the time scale are usually delimited by major geological or paleontological events, such as mass extinctions.
The geologic time scale.
The existence and extinction of the dinosaurs.