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The Cenozoic started 65.5 million years ago, and it continues through the present day. The Cenozoic is when flowering plants and mammals diversified and came to dominate terrestrial flora and fauna, respectively. Mammals started out small, but evolved into all the forms that exist today, from elephants to lions to kangaroos to bats to sea lions.

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What era has been called the Age of Mammals?

This era, the Cenozoic era, is the age of mammals. But among botanists and paleobotanists, it is known as the age of flowers -- the anthophyta.The extinction of the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era allowed mammals to proliferate and diversify.


What era period and epoch is the present time in?

The Holocene epoch, The Quaternary period, The Cenozoic era, The Information Decade, The Technology Data, The Caraophone Wire-where era and The Technology Age the next period will begin in 30000 it will be called the Rehostiric Period(meaning dInosaurs or old things may come alive, but humans are or wont be affected)


Human beings were present on Earth toward the end of the Cenozoic?

Yes, humans emerged during the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era, which began around 2.6 million years ago. The first anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared in Africa around 300,000 years ago.


Did Africa push into Europe and form the alps during the Cenozoic era?

No, Africa did not push into Europe to form the Alps during the Cenozoic era. The formation of the Alps is primarily attributed to the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates, which began during the late Mesozoic and continued into the Cenozoic. This tectonic activity led to significant mountain-building processes, resulting in the Alps as we know them today.


Human beings were present on Earth toward the end of the Cenozoic Era?

Well possibly. The Cenozoic or Age of the Mammals is the current geological era of the earth that began 65.5 million years ago. When it ends is not so much when we decide but more when nature decides. An extinction or genetic mutations leading to a new genus different than mammals and becoming the dominant life form will mark the end of this era. So whether we can say humans arrived toward the end of the Cenozoic era is for history to decide.