4.6 billion years in perspective

  • Period: 4600 BCE to 540

    Precambrian

    Guide Fossil: Stromatolites Geological events: There was a lot of volcanic activity, because of this, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, and the atmosphere were form Climate events: Formation of the primitive atmosphere, the appearance of the first liquid oceans, and episodes of extreme global glaciations
  • Origin Of Life
    3800 BCE

    Origin Of Life

    It happen in the ocean 3.8 billions of years
  • great oxidation
    2400 BCE

    great oxidation

    Oxygen changes the atmosphere and allows for new, more complex forms of life.
  • CYANOBACTERIA
    2400 BCE

    CYANOBACTERIA

    Some bacterias started to produce oxygen
  • appearance of eukaryotic cells
    2000 BCE

    appearance of eukaryotic cells

    appearance of cells with core and a complex form
  • Most Complex Life Forms (invertebrates)
    600 BCE

    Most Complex Life Forms (invertebrates)

    Dominate the world
  • Period: 539 BCE to 245 BCE

    Paleozoic

    Guide fossil: Trilobites Geological events: Intense tectonic, climatic, and biological activity, which laid the foundations for the evolution of terrestrial life and the configuration of modern continents. Climate events:It began warm, then experienced glaciations, later humid environments that generated coal, and ended with an arid climate in the Permian.
  • Ordovician-Silurian extinction
    444 BCE

    Ordovician-Silurian extinction

    85% of marine species were lost due to glaciation
  • Amphibian Age
    360 BCE

    Amphibian Age

    It occurred mainly during the Carboniferous period, between 360 and 300 million years ago
  • Late Devonian extinction
    360 BCE

    Late Devonian extinction

    75% of the species disappeared due to changes in sea level and anoxia
  • Age Of Reptiles
    320 BCE

    Age Of Reptiles

    Reptiles appeared on Earth approximately 320 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period.
  • Permian-Triassic extinction
    252 BCE

    Permian-Triassic extinction

    the largest in history, losing more than 90% of species
  • Period: 252 BCE to 66 BCE

    Mesozoico

    Guide fossil: ammonites Geological events: Fragmentation of Pangaea, the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, intense volcanic activity, prolonged marine transgressions, and the mass extinction of the Cretaceous that marked the end of the era. Climate events: Warm and humid climate across much of the planet, without major glaciations, with seas invading the continents and an ending marked by abrupt changes associated with the meteorite impact and massive volcanism.
  • 201 BCE

    Triassic-Jurassic extinction

    a lot of reptiles and giants were lost because of vulcanos and a change in the wheater
  • Angiosperm Plants
    145 BCE

    Angiosperm Plants

    It was in the Mesozoic more than 145 millions of years
  • Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction
    66 BCE

    Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction

    the most famous extinction, the dinosaurs became extinct due to a meteorite impact
  • Age of Mammals
    66 BCE

    Age of Mammals

    Mammals evolved into many forms: whales, bats, primates, elephants, and humans
  • Period: 62 BCE to

    Cenozoic

    Guide fossil: Nummulites Geological events: Formation of major mountain ranges such as the Himalayas and the Andes, the closure of the Tethys Sea, the union of North and South America, and the current configuration of the continents and oceans Climate events: Globally warm and stable climate, without major glaciations, with seas invading the continents and an ending marked by abrupt changes
  • Hominids
    7 BCE

    Hominids

    The hominids appear 7 millions years ago but the homo-sapiens appear 300 thousand years ago