Tanner's Geologic Timeline

  • Cambrian
    570 BCE

    Cambrian

    Earliest types of marine life. There was a huge amount of evolutionary changes during this time. Lasted 53 Million years
  • Ordovician
    500 BCE

    Ordovician

    Lots of sea animals during this time. North of the tropics was completely ocean Lasted 45 million years.
  • Silurian
    435 BCE

    Silurian

    This was the earliest signs of plants and some animals. The Silurian period was the third and last period in the Paleozoic Era.
  • Devonian
    395 BCE

    Devonian

    This was the time of the earliest amphibians. First types of dry land creatures. Free spring of vascular plants.
  • Carboniferous
    345 BCE

    Carboniferous

    There was lots of sharks and amphibians during this time. Plants from this time makes most of our coal.
  • Permian
    280 BCE

    Permian

    There was lots of sea animals that became extinct during this time. Also this is the period of the Paleozoic era, which ended with the largest mass extinction on earth ever.
  • Triassic
    225 BCE

    Triassic

    Beginning of the mesozoic era. During this time there was the first types of dinosaurs. Also pangaea is starting to break apart slowly.
  • Jurassic
    195 BCE

    Jurassic

    With the Pangaea splitting into two the north and the south there were more coastlines, making the climate more humid now instead of dry. Lots of new kinds of birds and mammals during this time.
  • Cretaceous
    136 BCE

    Cretaceous

    Lots of flowering plants and animals, this is the climax of the dinosaurs. This period was the end mesozoic era, it ended with a massive meteor killing most animals.
  • Tertiary
    65 BCE

    Tertiary

    This is the beginning of the Cenozoic era. Lots of modern day mammals now are on the earth, earliest placental mammals.