Colomn

The Geologic Colomn

  • proterozonic
    21,000 BCE

    proterozonic

    simple multicellular sea creatures develop
    algae and plankton develop eukaryotic cells develop
  • hadean
    11,476 BCE

    hadean

    formation of earth [uninhabitable]
  • cambrian
    5420 BCE

    cambrian

    sudden exploxion of life trilobites dominant rise of other
    marine invertebrates some vertebrates
  • Ordovician
    4883 BCE

    Ordovician

    trilobites abundant vertebrates increase
  • silurian
    4337 BCE

    silurian

    land colonized by antropods and plants
  • devonian
    4160 BCE

    devonian

    first amphibians freshwater fish wingless insects
  • archean
    4000 BCE

    archean

    earth becomes habitable spontaneous generation of first cell
    rise of bacteria and cyanobacteria
  • mississippian
    3592 BCE

    mississippian

    amphibians spread sharks and bony fish winged insect
  • pennsylvanian
    3181 BCE

    pennsylvanian

    giant insects first reptiles
  • permian
    2990 BCE

    permian

    modern insects reptiles spread evergreens winged insects
  • triassic
    2510 BCE

    triassic

    first dinosaurs rise of mammal like reptiles
  • jurassic
    1996 BCE

    jurassic

    giant dinosaurs early birds first mammals
  • cretaceous
    1455 BCE

    cretaceous

    mass extencion flowering plants appear
  • paleonce epoch
    655 BCE

    paleonce epoch

    early mammals become dominant rise of modern birds
  • eocene eponch
    558 BCE

    eocene eponch

    first horse
  • pliocene epoch
    530 BCE

    pliocene epoch

    peak of mammals modern invertebrates
  • oligocene epoch
    339 BCE

    oligocene epoch

    primitive apes whales first modern mammals
  • miocene epoch
    230 BCE

    miocene epoch

    rise of grazing mammals
  • pleistocene epoch
    180 BCE

    pleistocene epoch

    Ice Age mass extinctions rise of man
  • recent epoch
    114 BCE

    recent epoch

    end of last Ice Age rise of human civilization