The Tertiary Period
The Tertiary Period lasted between 65-1.8 million years ago.
Environment- lands were warm and moist in the beginning of the period
- soon cooling had lead to an ice age |
Life Forms- primitive whales
- monkeys - cats/dogs - pigs - rhinos - horses - modern forms of whales |
Major Events- development of all modern phyla
- formed the current configurations of continents - the rise of mammals |