Geologicaltimescale4

Cole's geo timeline

  • cambrian
    541 BCE

    cambrian

    incredible burst of evolution and complex life forms emerge. large hard body creatures emerge. trilobites dominated. supercontinent rodinia broke apart.
  • ordovician
    485 BCE

    ordovician

    A variety of sea life flourished. first plants arrived on land. and second largest mass extinction. nautiloids dominated.
  • silurian
    443 BCE

    silurian

    sea levels rise, and first animals walk on land. Huge reef systems formed followed by sponges and coral. diverse fish also arrived along with planktonic creatures. Sea scorpions and eurypterids dominated. first sharks arrive.
  • devonian
    416 BCE

    devonian

    Age of armored fish. supercontinent Euramerica formed. shark ancestors. first amphibians walk on land and plant life begins to spread more on to land. Mass extinction killed 70% of life.