Sequential changes in community structure over physical distance, primarily influenced by time, constitute a chronosequence

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Triassic- First dinosaurs and mammal

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Jurassic- First birds and angiosperms

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Cretaceous- Diversity of angiosperms and last dinosaurs extinct 

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Paleogene- Radiation of mammals, birds, snakes, angiosperms, pollinating insects

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Neogene- Increasingly cool, dry climate; grasslands spread; modern families of mammals and birds; first apes

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Quaternary- Extinctions of large mammals, and birds; evolution of Homo sapiens, spread out of Africa