THE QUATERNARY

PERIOD

PRESENTED BY: GROUP 8

-WHAT IS THE QUATERNARY PERIOD?
-WHAT ORGANISMS HAS EXISTED?
-WHEN THESE ORGANISMS FIRST APPEARED?
-ITS EXTINCTION & DEVIATION
WHAT IS THE QUATERNARY PERIOD?
THE QUATERNARY PERIOD IS THE THIRD AND LAST
OF THE THREE PERIODS OF THE CENOZOIC ERA.
THE ENTIRE QUATERNARY PERIOD, WHICH BEGAN
2.58 MILLION YEARS AGO, IS REFERRED TO AS THE
ICE AGE. IT'S ALSO WHEN WE, HUMAN BEINGS
WERE OCCUPIED IN THIS ERA.
DURING THE QUATERNARY PERIOD, SEVERAL GLACIATIONS
AND GLACIAL RETREATS THROUGHOUT THIS TIME ARE
WELL-KNOWN. ENORMOUS BIRDS AND MAMMALS ALSO
WENT EXTINCT. AND THIS PERIOD IS DIVIDED INTO THE
HOLOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE EPOCHS.
 THE TWO EPOCHS OF THE
QUATERNARY PERIOD AND THE
KNOWN ANIMALS IN THEM
PLEISTOCENE EPOCH

GIANT ANIMALS OR MEGAFAUNA RULED THIS EPOCH. SUCH

AS CAVE BEARS, MAMMOTHS, GIANT DEER, MASTODONS,
GIANT SLOTHS, AND SABER-TOOTH TIGERS.

THE OCEANS WERE RULED BY GIANT MARINE ANIMALS LIKE

MEGALODON AND HUNTING WHALES.
HOLOCENE EPOCH
THIS IS THE CURRENT EPOCH. THE MODERN ANIMALS YOU SEE
TODAY ARE RELATED TO THE PRESENT AIR, LAND, AND MARINE
ANIMALS. THEY MAY BE SMALLER THAN THEIR GIANT
COUNTERPARTS IN THE PLEISTOCENE, BUT THEY SHARE
GENETIC INFORMATION.

THESE ARE THE GREAT WHITE SHARKS, BROWN BEARS, AND

ELEPHANTS.
THE EXTINCTION OF GIANT
COUNTERPARTS IN THE PLEISTOCENE
THE WARMING CAUSED THE ICE SHEETS TO RETREAT, WHICH IS KNOWN AS
THE THAW. THIS EVENT AFFECTED MANY ANIMALS. LARGE BASINS WERE
DRAINED BY NEW RIVERS AS A RESULT OF THE GLACIERS' CARBON DIOXIDE
RELEASING GAS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE. PRECIPITATION AND ARIDITY WERE
BOTH IMPACTED.
THE OCEANS WERE RULED BY SHARKS AND WHALES. THEY COEXISTED WITH
OTTERS, SEALS, CRABS, FISH, URCHINS, SEALS, AND DUGONGS IN ADDITION
TO MICROSCOPIC PLANKTON. ON LAND, THE ENORMOUS, FURRY BEASTS
PERISHED.
THE EXTINCTION OF GIANT
COUNTERPARTS IN THE PLEISTOCENE
THE AGE OF HUMANS – THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE LAND GIANTS
HAPPENED ALMOST AT THE SAME TIME AS THE APPEARANCE OF
HUMAN HUNTERS. HOMO ERECTUS APPEARED IN AFRICA DURING
THE START OF THE QUATERNARY PERIOD.
THE THAW THE AGE OF HUMANS
GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE OF
QUATERNARY PERIOD
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