Part one of term paper
The tertiary consisted of two main epochs. The Paleocene, the Eocene and the Oligocene, which make up the Paleogene; and the Miocene and Pliocene, which make up the Neogene. The close of the Cretaceous Period marked a major transition in Earth’s history. Ammonoids and marine reptiles disappeared from the sea. Marine taxa that persist as ...

Part two of term paper
... the Paleogene interval but in many ways resembled modern mammals by the period’s end. The most profound geographic change during Paleogene time was a refrigeration of Earth’s polar regions, which resulted in a chilling of the deep sea and, later in the Cenozoic Era, in widespread glaciation. Paleogene mountain-building events in western North America foreshadowed Neogene uplifts of such ranges as the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. During the Neogene, the modern world took shape ...