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The time of ancient life, Trilobites were the dominant species during this time period. Chordates were very popular in this time too, they were ancestors of spiders, insects and crustaceans. The end of this time period caused a series of mass extinctions, many shell like insects-brachiopods and other animals went extinct, also trilobites.
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The first lands start to appear, fungi and seaweed become existent. The ocean becomes full of corals and small type sea animals. The main living things had to do with the Marine Life.
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The earliest time of terrestrial plants and animals, such as spiders, scorpions, insects, complex plants, and fish with bony jaws. Fish adapt to living in rivers and fresh water for the first time
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Armored fish become extinct. Other fishes still exist and amphibians appear. First trees and plants spread across the land creating the first forests.
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Abundant sharks and amphibians become existent. Large swamps and coal forming forests are created. Earliest reptiles appear, scale trees, seed ferns, and early winged insects and cockroaches
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Extinction of many Marine animals including Trilobites due to volcanic eruptions. 95% Marine animals went extinct and 50% of all animals going extinct. Amphibians dominated the land and early cone-bearing plants such as pine trees appeared.
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Earliest dinosaurs, abundant cycads and conifers. Crocodiles and survivors of the Permian extinction go on to populate the land once again.
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Earliest birds and mammals are existent, abundant dinosaurs and ammonites. Dinosaurs dominated the land at this time, the most common plant were ferns and palm-like trees called cycads and grass
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Earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction, great decline of Brachipods. An abundance of bony fish. 65% of species including dinosaurs went extinct when the extinction occured
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Earliest placental mammals, modern mammals, large running mammals were all existent. Marine animals had a great population, whales now existed and flowering plants spread across the globe.
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Large carnivores; neanderthals, humans, mastodons. The beginning of this time period was when the first modern humans appeared and developed civilization by the end of this period. Giant mammals such as, mammoths, saber-tooth cats, and giant camels dominated until 10,000 years ago when many large mammals went extinct.
