First evidence of land life [p1] Abundant fossils of marine…
First evidence of land life [p1] Abundant fossils of marine phyla [p2] “Greening of the Earth” as major innovations for land life evolved in plants [p3] Widespread Northern Hemisphere flora [p4] The most massive extinction event known that doomed Glossopterid seed ferns (border between either of what two periods?) [p5] First verified fossils of flowering plants – the angiosperms [p6] One of either two periods known as the Age of Cycads [p7] Final entry of white pine into the Great Lakes region [p8] Retreat of the North American epicontinental sea, drying of the interior, origin of the grass family, and rise of grasslands [p9] Euramerica covered with vast tropical forests dominated by lycopod and horsetail “trees” [p10] The last period with dinosaurs and that culminated with the second largest extinction event [p11] Ice age events that cycled about 20 times [p12]
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