Geological Timeline

  • Period: to

    Earth

  • Cambrian 570-500 M.

  • Paleozoic Period

  • Ordovician 500-435 M.

  • Silurian 435-395 M.

  • Devonian 395-345 M

    Armored fish go extinct, abundance of fish, earliest amphibians.
  • Carboniferous 345-280 M

    Carboniferous 345-280 M
    Abundant sharks and amphibians, earliest reptiles and coal producing forests.
  • Permian 280-225 M

    Permian 280-225 M
    Extinction of many marine animals.
  • Triassic 225-195 M

    Triassic 225-195 M
    Earliest dinosuars.
  • Mesozoic Period

  • Jurassic 195-136 M

    Jurassic 195-136 M
    Earliest birds, abundant dinosuars.
  • Cretaceous 136-65 M

    Cretaceous 136-65 M
    Earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosuars.
  • Teritary 65-1.8 M

    Teritary 65-1.8 M
    Earliest mammals.
  • Quaternary 1.8- Present

    Quaternary 1.8- Present
    Large carnivours neandrethals, humans.