Geologic timeline

  • Cambrian 500-570 ma

    Cambrian 500-570 ma

    earliestperiod of marine life-trilobites are dominant.
  • Ordovician 435-500 ma

    Ordovician 435-500 ma

    Echinoderms, starfish, sand dollar, sea urchin, and sea cucumbers. Invertabrates are dominant, mollusks become abundant, earliest fish that are jawless and, later jawed armored fish.
  • Silurian 395-435 ma

    Silurian 395-435 ma

    Earliest terrestrial plants, and animals. Tiktaalik, Eurypterids develope.
  • Devonian 345-395 ma

    Devonian 345-395 ma

    Armored fish go extinct, but Abundance of several species of fish, earliest Amphibians and ammonites.
  • Carboniferous 280-345 ma

    Carboniferous 280-345 ma

    Abundant sharks, and amphibians, large swamps, and coal forming forests. Earliest reptiles, scale trees, and seed ferns.
  • Permian 225-280

    Permian 225-280

    Extinct of many types of marine animals imcluding Trilobites

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