1 Only about 1 percent of Michiganâs maple forest resource is used in maple syrup production. 2  In an average year, each tap-hole will produce about 10 gallons of maple sap, enough for about a quart of pure Michigan maple syrup.
A mass extinction marked the end of the Mesozoic Era The Mesozoic era is the era of dinosaurs and lasted 180 million years. This era includes 3 well-known periods - Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous. A mass extinction marked the beginning and the end of the Mesozoic Era. Was this helpful?
The fourth major mass extinction event was actually a combination of many, smaller extinction events that happened over the last 18 million years of the Triassic Period during the Mesozoic Era. Over this long time span, about half of all known species on Earth at that time perished.