According to Fossil Records,mammals

question 42

Multiple Choice

According to fossil records,mammals

• A) first appeared in the same geologic era, the Mesozoic, as dinosaurs.
• B) None of the answer choices are correct.
• C) first appeared in the current Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era.
• D) did not appear until the Cenozoic era, after dinosaurs were extinct.
• E) lived in the same era, the Paleozoic, as reptiles, amphibians, and bony fishes.

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