Geologic Time Scale

  • The Big Bang
    Jan 1, 1503

    The Big Bang

  • Birth of the Earth
    Sep 5, 1503

    Birth of the Earth

    Earth has started to be formed . Started about 4.5 billion years ago.
  • Period: Sep 22, 1503 to Dec 12, 1503

    Precambrian Time

    spans from the formation of Earth about 4570 Ma ago to the beginning of the Cambrian Period.
  • Cambrian Period
    Dec 19, 1503

    Cambrian Period

    The first vertebrates are appearing and trilobites and branchiopods are most common. marine invertebrates also appear.
  • ordovician period
    Dec 21, 1503

    ordovician period

    Most of the Earth is covered with water and has a warm and wet and plants were starting to form on the land.
  • silurian period
    Dec 22, 1503

    silurian period

    Animals and plants started " emerging" on land . eurypterids also appeared
  • Devonian Period
    Dec 23, 1503

    Devonian Period

    Known as the "Age of Fishes" amphibians begin appearing and seed-bearing plants begin developing.
  • mississippiann epoch
    Dec 24, 1503

    mississippiann epoch

    Lasted for about 40 million years. Euramerica and western Gondwana drifted northwards and moved closer together
  • pennsylvanian epoch
    Dec 25, 1503

    pennsylvanian epoch

    Lasted 33 million years. A result of the collision of Gondwana and Laurasia the supercontinent of Pangea begins to form
  • jurassic period
    Dec 26, 1503

    jurassic period

    There are Dinosaurs, birds, rodents, sea monsters, sharks, and blood-red plankton. deserts started turning green. dinosaurs dominated the land .
  • triassic period
    Dec 27, 1503

    triassic period

    "Age of the dinosaurs." dinosuars appear.mammals appear.
  • Oligocene epoch (12:00 pm)
    Dec 31, 1503

    Oligocene epoch (12:00 pm)

    appearance of the first elephants with trunks, early horses, and the appearance of many grasses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWjwHE6iJls
  • paleocene epoch (7:00)
    Dec 31, 1503

    paleocene epoch (7:00)

    mammals, birds, reptiles and marine animals that survived the mass Extinction. The Paleocene was the first epoch of the Paleogene period .
  • eocene epoch (9:00 am)
    Dec 31, 1503

    eocene epoch (9:00 am)

  • Miocene Epoch (1:00 pm)
    Dec 31, 1503

    Miocene Epoch (1:00 pm)

    warm climate.raccons and wolves appeared. large herds of grazing mammals appeared.
  • Pleistocene epoch (11:30 pm)
    Dec 31, 1503

    Pleistocene epoch (11:30 pm)

    climate continues to cool . woolly mammoth , Rhinos and humans first appeared
  • Holocene Epoch (11:59 pm)
    Dec 31, 1503

    Holocene Epoch (11:59 pm)

    current time . climate warms up . .human society devolped.
  • Pliocene Epoch (8:00 pm)
    Dec 31, 1503

    Pliocene Epoch (8:00 pm)

    the Panamanian land-bridge between North and South America appeared during the Pliocene, allowing migrations of plants and animals into new habitats. climate cooled.