Things to study from Mesozoic-Cenozoic Life notes
1. What were the dominant land plants during the Mesozoic?
2. What new land plant group evolved during the Mesozoic?
3. What new marine plants groups evolved during the Mesozoic?
4. What new angiosperm group evolved during the Cenozoic & what effect did this have on grazing mammals?
1. What terrestrial invertebrate group became important land plant pollinators during the Mesozoic?
2. What group of coelenterates became important reef builders in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic?
3. What group of invertebrates became the dominant bivalve?
4. What group became the dominant echinoderm?
1. How are different groups of reptiles distinguished?
2. What groups of vertebrates dominated the Triassic land fauna?
3. When in the Mesozoic did dinosaurs evolve and when were they dominant?
4. How are the two groups of dinosaurs distinguished?
5. Were dinosaurs warm-blooded or cold-blooded and how would we decide?
6. What two new classes of vertebrates evolved during the Mesozoic and when?
7. What group did birds evolve from?
8. How are Mesozoic birds different from modern birds?
9. What is the first bird?
10. How are different groups of mammals distinguished?
11. What are the two most abundant orders of mammals?
12. When did mass extinctions occur in the Mesozoic?
13. What are some groups that went extinct during each mass extinction?
14. What may have caused these mass extinctions?