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Survivors; The Animals And Plants That Time Has Left Behind (2012)

by Richard Fortey(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

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History & Biography

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HarperPress

review 1: Good story on some of the survivors of ancient lineages that are still living today.Start Ma BP Era Period0 Quaternary Holocene1.64 Pleistocene5.2 Tertiary Pliocene23 Miocene34 Oligocene56 Eocene65 Palaocene145 Mesozoic Cretaceeous - first mammals - Archaeopteryx - flowering plants199 Jurrassic - Gnetophyta - Welwitschia - montremes251 Triassic - Araucarias - monkey puzzle, Wollemi299 Upper Palaeoz... moreoic Permian359 Carboniferous - ferns, cycads, ginkgos - first reptiles416 Devonian - fish & amphibians443 Silurian - first vertebrates - lancelets - club mosses - Lycopodium488 Ordovician - brachiopods - Lingula542 Cambrian - trilobites, horseshoe crabs - Onychophorans from the Burgess shale - ancestor of velvet worm2500 Precambrain Ediacaran - sponges Proterozoic3500 Archaean - stromatolites4550 Hadean
review 2: Good story on some of the survivors of ancient lineages that are still living today.Start Ma BP Era Period0 Quaternary Holocene1.64 Pleistocene5.2 Tertiary Pliocene23 Miocene34 Oligocene56 Eocene65 Palaocene145 Mesozoic Cretaceeous - first mammals - Archaeopteryx - flowering plants199 Jurrassic - Gnetophyta - Welwitschia - montremes251 Triassic - Araucarias - monkey puzzle, Wollemi299 Upper Palaeozoic Permian359 Carboniferous - ferns, cycads, ginkgos - first reptiles416 Devonian - fish & amphibians443 Silurian - first vertebrates - lancelets - club mosses - Lycopodium488 Ordovician - brachiopods - Lingula542 Cambrian - trilobites, horseshoe crabs - Onychophorans from the Burgess shale - ancestor of velvet worm2500 Precambrain Ediacaran - sponges Proterozoic3500 Archaean - stromatolites4550 Hadean less

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