Geologic Time Scale

  • Big Bang

    Big Bang

    The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that describes the early development of the Universe. According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly. This rapid expansion caused the Universe to cool and resulted in its present continuously expanding state. According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13.75 billion years ago.
  • Birth of Earth

    Birth of Earth

    when the earth really started to be one big peice. Althought there was no life, we know this happened.
  • Precambrian

    Precambrian

    The Earth forms. Continantal shields appear, fossils are rare, and stomatlites are the most common organism. It was the begining of life.
  • Cambrian

    Cambrian

    TrilobitesShelled marine invertebrates appear, like trilobites and brachiopods are common in this period. also the first vertvbates appear.
  • Ordovician

    Ordovician

    Echinoderms appeared, and brachiiopods increase but the trilobites declined, then graptolites flourished. Also atmosphere reaches modern air we breath now.
  • Silurian

    Silurian

    Eurypterids appeared. Land, plants and animals also appeared.
  • Devonian

    Devonian

    MegalodonThe age of the fishes had begun. Amphibians appeared along with giant horsetails, herns, and seed bearing plants developed.
  • Mississippian

    Mississippian

    Amphibians flourished. Brachiopods are common in oceans everywhere. Most of the land was covered in swamps and forests.
  • Pennsylvanian

    Pennsylvanian

    Giant cockroaches and dragonflies were common. Coal deposits formed. Also reotiles appeared.
  • Permian

    Permian

    Pangea comes togther. The a mass extinction masks the end of the Paleozoic era.
  • Triassic

    Triassic

    First dinosaurs appeared on earth. Ammonites were common. Cycads and conifers were abundant and mamals appeared.
  • Jurassic

    Jurassic

    Some types of dinosaursDinosaurs were the dominant life-form at this time, thats why most people know jurassic for the time of the dinosaur. There was primitive bird and flying reptiles appeared.
  • Cretaceous

    Cretaceous

    flower plants and modern birls appeared. this was also a mass extiniction marking the end of the mesozoic era.
  • 7am Palepcene

    7am Palepcene

    This was the age of mammals begining, also when the frist primates appeared.
  • 9am Eocene

    9am Eocene

    This is when horses, flying spuirrels, bats, and whales appeared.
  • 12pm Oligocene

    12pm Oligocene

    Now we are going into more known and common animals, like deer, pigs, camels, cats and dogs were appearing.
  • 1pm Miocene

    1pm Miocene

    Then grazing herbs were becoming abundant. Also raccons and wolves appeared.
  • 8pm Pliocene

    8pm Pliocene

    Then more of the large carnivores like lions and bears appeared.
  • 11:30pm Pleistocene

    11:30pm Pleistocene

    Woolly MammothThen woolly mammoths, rhinos and humans appeared.
  • 11:59pm Holocene

    11:59pm Holocene

    The last glacial period had ended. Now the complex human societies developed.