Mammals

1. Review of Advantages/disadvantages of placenta

2. Diversity of placental mammals (Eutheria)

3. Limb diversity (see also pp. 652, 660; 10th: 639, 647)

4. Tooth diversity (see also pp. 618, 710; 10th: 605, 702)

5. Mammalian diversity

6. Amniote extinction events

Amniote extinction events

—Paleozoic amniotes

—Extinctions at end of Paleozoic Era:

Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) Periods (225 Mya)

—Mesozoic amniotes

—Extinctions at end of Mesozoic Era:

Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) Periods (65 Mya)

—Cenozoic Era mammals: Eocene Period

—Eocene/Oligocene extinctions (38 to 29 Mya)

—Pleistocene and Recent mammals (2 to 0 Mya)