Geological timeline

By Aura González Alayón
  • Cambrian explosion
    550 BCE

    Cambrian explosion

    cambrian period
  • Period: 550 BCE to 240 BCE

    Paeleaozoic Era

  • Period: 550 BCE to 438 BCE

    Cambrian Period

  • Rodinia breaks up
    549 BCE

    Rodinia breaks up

    the continent Rodinia starts to break
  • Invertebrates become common
    538 BCE

    Invertebrates become common

    appearance of all invertebratres
  • Appearance of vertebrates
    438 BCE

    Appearance of vertebrates

    Appearance of all vertebratres /
    Ordovician Period
  • Period: 438 BCE to 408 BCE

    Ordovician Period

  • Period: 408 BCE to 360 BCE

    Silurian Period

  • Period: 360 BCE to 286 BCE

    Devonian Period

  • New life
    359 BCE

    New life

    New plants; early sharks; wingless insects
  • First trees and anphibians
    359 BCE

    First trees and anphibians

    first appearance of trees and anphibians, age of the fish
  • Period: 286 BCE to 245 BCE

    Carboniferous Period

  • Period: 245 BCE to 208 BCE

    Permian Period

  • Period: 240 BCE to 100 BCE

    Mesozoic Era

  • Permian mass extincion
    208 BCE

    Permian mass extincion

    Final of the Permian Period
  • Period: 206 BCE to 145 BCE

    Triassic Period

  • Pangaea begins to break up
    147 BCE

    Pangaea begins to break up

    jurassic period
  • Period: 145 BCE to 65 BCE

    Jurassic Period

  • Period: 100 BCE to 50

    Caenozoic Era

  • Period: 65 BCE to 54 BCE

    Cretaceous Period

  • Raise of birds and placental mammals
    54 BCE

    Raise of birds and placental mammals

  • Period: 54 BCE to 1 BCE

    Tertiary Period

  • The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction
    52 BCE

    The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction

    The extintion of dinosaurs
  • Period: 1 BCE to 50

    Quaternary Period

  • First Humans
    2

    First Humans

    First poblations
  • Humans envolve
    50

    Humans envolve

    The human start to evolution

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