Cenozoic Era

Cenozoic Era
Temporal information Time span 65.5 million years ago to the present Part of Phanerozoic Eon Paleogene Paleocene Danian Selandian Thanetian Eocene Ypresian Lutetian Bartonian Priabonian Oligocene Rupelian Chattian Neogene Miocene Aquitanian Burdigalian Langhian Serravallian Tortonian Messinian Pliocene Zanclean Piacenzian Quaternary Pleistocene Gelasian Calabrian Chibanian Late Pleistocene Holocene Greenlandian Northgrippian Meghalayan (present) Chronological information
Previous period Mesozoic Era	Following period N/A

Half-Tooth

The Cenozoic Era, (also known as Cainozoic), is the third major era of our history. It began after the Mesozoic Era and it continues in the Recent. It began roughly 66 MYA. The Cenozoic Era includes the Paleogene, the Neogene and the Quaternary periods.

The Cenozoic Era's climate was marked by large shifts of global warming and cooling, followed by the rising and falling of the sea levels. During this time warm-blooded animals, birds and mammals begin to dominate on land and in the air; the mammals also return to the water - all of the major groups of marine mammals evolved during this time period, and most of them have existed ever since.

The primates have also appeared and spread out during the Cenozoic; the shift from the Neogene to the Quaternary periods is marked by appearance of the first humans. Modern plant families have also become established during the Cenozoic; the flowering plants have reached their dominance. The last stage of Cenozoic was marked by an Ice Age.

Cenozoic Periods

Paleogene

Image	period title	Time span
	Palaeocene	66-56 Mya
	Eocene	56-33.9 Mya
	Oligocene	33.9-23 Mya

Neogene

Image	period title	Time span
	Miocene	23-5.3 Mya
	Pliocene	5.3-2.6 Mya

Quaternary

Image	period title	Time span
	Pleistocene	2.6 Mya-11,700 ya
	Holocene	11,700 ya-Present