MCQ
Angiosperm arose in the................ period.
- ACarboniferous
- BCretaceous
- CTriassic
- DTertiary
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Answer
- Cretaceous
Explanation:
Flowering plants (angiosperms) arose close to the beginning of the Cretaceous and became more abundant as the period progressed. The Late Cretaceous was a time of great productivity in the worlds oceans, as borne out by the deposition of thick beds of chalk in western Europe, eastern Russia, southern Scandinavia, the Gulf Coast of North America, and western Australia.
The Cretaceous ended with one of the greatest mass extinctions in the history of Earth, exterminating the dinosaurs, marine and flying reptiles, and many marine invertebrates. Thus, option B is correct. Angiosperm were not arose in carboniferous period, triassic period and tertiary period.
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