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Prehistoric, written by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld ; illustrations by Julius Csotonyi

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Prehistoric, written by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld ; illustrations by Julius Csotonyi

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Prehistoric

Oclc number

1114266683

Responsibility statement

written by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld ; illustrations by Julius Csotonyi

Summary

A look at the history of life on Earth starts in the present and goes back hundreds of millions of years to the Ediacaran Period, profiling the creatures that existed at each time

Table Of Contents

Anthropocene: present day -- Holocene: 10,000 years ago-present day -- Pleistocene: 2.6 million-10,000 years ago -- Neogene: 23 million-2.6 million years ago -- Paleogene: 66 million-23 million years ago -- End-Cretaceous extinction: 66 million years ago -- Cretaceous: 145-66 million years ago -- Jurassic: 201-145 million years ago -- Triassic: 252-201 million years ago -- End-Permian extinction: 252 million years ago -- Permian: 299-252 million years ago -- Carboniferous: 359-299 million years ago -- Devonian: 419-359 million years ago -- Silurian: 443-419 million years ago -- Ordovician: 485-443 million years ago -- Cambrian: 541-485 million years ago -- Ediacaran and before: 4.6 billion-541 million years ago

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Smithsonian PrehistoricPrehistoric, dinosaurs, megalodons, and other fascinating creatures of the deep past

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