Geologic Timescale

  • Cambrian Period-570-500MYA

    Cambrian Period-570-500MYA

    Earliest marine life recorded. Abundant amount of Trilobites.
  • Ordovician-500-435MYA

    Ordovician-500-435MYA

    Starfish, sand dollars, and jawed armor fish.
  • Silurian-435-395-MYA

    Silurian-435-395-MYA

    Earliest terrestrial plants and animals.
  • Devonian-395-345MYA

    Devonian-395-345MYA

    Armored fish go extinct.
  • Carboniferous-345-280MYA

    Carboniferous-345-280MYA

    Abundant sharks and amphibians
  • Permian-280-225MYA

    Permian-280-225MYA

    Extinction of many marine animals.
  • Triassic-225-195MYA

    Triassic-225-195MYA

    Early dinosaurs. Cyads and Conifers.
  • Jurassic-195-136MYA

    Jurassic-195-136MYA

    Earlleist birds and mammals. Abundant dionosaurs and ammonites.
  • Cretaceous-136-65MYA

    Cretaceous-136-65MYA

    Climax of dinosaurs followed by the extinction of fish.
  • Tertiary-65-1MYA

    Tertiary-65-1MYA

    non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event,
  • Quaternary

    Quaternary

    The climate was one of periodic glaciations with continental glaciers moving as far from the poles as 40 degrees latitude.