Cenozoic Quiz

All answers pertain to something from the Cenozoic Era (aka the "Age of Mammals"), from 66 million years ago to the present.

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Last updated: March 24, 2021

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Hint	Answer
The "third" period that formerly made up most of this era	Tertiary
The "fourth" and most recent geologic period	Quarternary
Reptile group that went extinct (except birds!) right before the Cenozoic	dinosaur
Space object that wiped them out	asteroid
Titanoboa- largest of these reptiles ever found	snake
Ambulocetus had this body part modern whales lack	legs
Paraceratherium was a giant hornless relative of these modern mammals	rhinoceros
Giant shark that had massive teeth	megalodon
Famous Australopithecus specimen named after a Beatles song	Lucy
Giant flightless birds of prey	terror bird
This "upright man" had a name that sounds dirty	Homo erectus

Hint	Answer
These covered large portions of land during the ice ages	glaciers
Hairy elephant	mammoth
Feline relative with giant fangs	saber-toothed cat
term for large animals, often associated with ice age mammals	megafauna
Oil pools that preserved thousands of ice age animals	tar pits
A robust ancestor of ours often stereotyped as cave-dwellers	Neanderthal
Our "other", more mysterious ancestor found in a cave in Siberia	Denisovan
landform that allowed animals & people to walk from Siberia to Alaska	land bridge
Giant flightless bird of New Zealand	Moa
The officially unrecognized "age of man" that comes after the Holocene	Anthropocene

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Mar 25, 2021

Thanks! FYI there's a typo in quaternary

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