Prehistoric / written by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld ; illustrations by Julius Csotonyi.

Prehistoric : (cover title)
Smithsonian Prehistoric (portion title)

Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner, (author.). Csotonyi, Julius, 1973- (illustrator.). Smithsonian Institution. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781912920051
ISBN: 1912920050
Physical Description: 45 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Publisher: Greenbelt, Maryland, : WoEB, What On Earth Books, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:

At head of title: Smithsonian.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.