The mezozoic era is known as the age of dinosaurs. The period in the Paleozoic that is famous for coal swamps is the Carboniferous period. The cambrian period was the first explosion of Life. Humans first appeared in the Holocene epoch. The extinction of the dinosaurs marked the end of the Mesozoic Era. The last ice age in michigan happened in the peliosticene epoch
Longest to Shortest: era, period, epoch
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/gtpage1.html
Author:Jim Kupius
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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