Geologic Timeline

  • Cambrian 570-500mya

    Cambrian 570-500mya
    Multi-celluar life foemed on Earth for the first time.
  • Ordovician 500-435mya

    Ordovician 500-435mya
    Intertebrate are dominat, mollures became abundant.
  • Silurian 435-395mya

    Silurian 435-395mya
    earliest terrestrial plants & animals, tiktalalik, eurterids devetod.
  • Devonian 395-345mya

    Devonian 395-345mya
    Armored fish go extinct but abondane of several spiecies of fish form,
  • Carboniferous 345-280mya

    Carboniferous 345-280mya
    abundant of sharks, large swamps and cool forrest.
  • Permian 280-225mya

    Permian 280-225mya
    Extinction of many types of marine animals, including triolabites.
  • Triassic 225-195mya

    Triassic 225-195mya
    earliest dinosaurs, abundant cyads, and conifers.
  • Jurassic 195-136mya

    Jurassic 195-136mya
    Earliest birds and mammals, abundant dinosaurs
  • Cretaceous 136-65mya

    Cretaceous 136-65mya
    Earliest flowering plants, abundance of bony fish.
  • Tertiary 65-1.8mya

    Tertiary 65-1.8mya
    Earliest placental mammals, modern mammals, large running animals.
  • Quaternary 1.8mya-Present

    Quaternary 1.8mya-Present
    Large cornivores, humans, mostodons