Eric Timeline

By Cpt.10
  • 570 BCE

    Cambrian (570m-500m) Paleozoic Ear

    Cambrian (570m-500m) Paleozoic Ear
    Earliest record of marine life
  • 500 BCE

    Ordovician (500m-435m) paleozoic Era

    Ordovician (500m-435m) paleozoic Era
    (starfish,sand dollars, sea urchin, and sea cucumbers) Invertebrates are dominate, mollusks, become abundant, Earliest fish that are jawless and later jawed armor fish.
  • 435 BCE

    Silurian (435m- 395m) Paleozoic Era

    Silurian (435m- 395m) Paleozoic Era
    Earliest terrestrial plants and animals. (tikkalik)
  • 396 BCE

    Devonian (395m-345m) Paleozoic Era

    Devonian (395m-345m) Paleozoic Era
    Armor fish go extinct, but abundance of several species of fish, Earliest amphibians and ammonites.
  • 345 BCE

    Carboniferous (345m-280m) Palaeozoic Era

    Carboniferous (345m-280m) Palaeozoic Era
    (Mississippian, Pennsylvanian) Abundant sharks and amphibians. Large swamps and coal farming forest. Earliest reptiles, scaled trees, and seed ferns.
  • 280 BCE

    Permian (280m-225m) Palaeozoic Era

    Permian (280m-225m) Palaeozoic Era
    Extinction of many types of marine animals including Trioblites
  • 225 BCE

    Triassic (225m-195m) Mesozoic Era

    Triassic (225m-195m) Mesozoic Era
    Earliest Dinosaurs, abundant cycads and conifers.
  • 195 BCE

    Jurassic (195m-136m) Mesozoic Era

    Jurassic (195m-136m) Mesozoic Era
    Earliest birds and mammals abundant dinosaurs and ammonites.
  • 136 BCE

    Cretaceous (136m-65m) Mesozoic Era

    Cretaceous (136m-65m) Mesozoic Era
    Earliest flowering plants, Climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction. Great decline of Brachiopods of Biny fish.
  • 65 BCE

    Tertiary (65m-1.8m) Cenozoic Era

    Tertiary (65m-1.8m) Cenozoic Era
    Earliest Placental mammals, modern mammals, large running mammals