Darrells geologic timeline

  • Devonian 395-345mya
    395 BCE

    Devonian 395-345mya

    Armored fish go extinct, but abundance of several species of fish. Earliest amphibians and ammonites.
  • carboniferous 345-280mya
    345 BCE

    carboniferous 345-280mya

    Abundant sharks and amphibians. Large swamps and coal forming forests. Earliest reptiles. Scale trees and seed ferns.
  • cretaceous 136-65mya
    136 BCE

    cretaceous 136-65mya

    Earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction. Great decline of brachiopods. Abundance of bony fish.
  • jurassic 195-136mya
    195

    jurassic 195-136mya

    Earliest birds and mammals abundant dinosaurs and ammonite
  • Triassic 225-195mya
    225

    Triassic 225-195mya

    Earliest Dinosaurs, abundant cycads and conifers
  • permian 280-225mya
    280

    permian 280-225mya

    Extinction of many types of marine animals including trilobites.
  • silurian 435-395mya
    435

    silurian 435-395mya

    Earliest terrestrial plants and animals. tiktaalik eurypterids develop
  • ordovician 500-435mya
    500

    ordovician 500-435mya

    Echinoderms and invertebrates are the dominant species.mollusks are abundant.Earliest Fish that are Jawless and later, jawed and armored fish.
  • cambrian 570-500mya
    570

    cambrian 570-500mya

    Earliest record of marine life
    Trilobites are the dominant species
  • tertiary 65-1.8mya

    tertiary 65-1.8mya

    Earliest Placental Mammals, modern mammals, large running mammals