What made the tertiary period different from the others?
The Tertiary Period marks the beginning of the Cenozoic Era. It began 65 million years ago and lasted more than 63 million years, until 1.8 million years ago. The Tertiary is made up of 5 epochs : The Paleocene Epoch – 65 to 54 million years ago The Eocene Epoch – 54 to 38 million years ago The Oligocene Epoch – 38 to 24 million years ago The Miocene Epoch – 24 to 5 million years ago The Pliocene Epoch- 5 to 1.8 million years ago Each epoch has unique characteristics for climate and geography. The plants and animals changed from epoch to epoch also. http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/t… The Tertiary was an interval of enormous geologic, climatic, oceanographic, and biological change. It spanned the transition from a globally warm world containing relatively high sea levels and dominated by reptiles to a world of polar glaciation, sharply differentiated climate zones, and mammalian dominance. It
