Geologic Timeline- D'anna Brumfield

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  • Cambrian Period 570-500 MYA
    500 BCE

    Cambrian Period 570-500 MYA

    Earliest record of marine life, like the Trilobites are most dominant. During this time the Cambrian Explosion occured killing all marine animals in 550 MYA also Rodinia was fully broken apart and now had an ozone layer.
  • Ordovician Period 500-435 MYA
    435 BCE

    Ordovician Period 500-435 MYA

    Echinoderms(starfish,sand dollars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers) existed. Invertebrates are the most dominant, mollusks became abundant. Earliest fish are jawless, but later on become jawed, armored fish. Due to the ozone layer life was able to live.
  • Silurian Period 435-395 MYA
    395 BCE

    Silurian Period 435-395 MYA

    The earliest terrestrial plants and animals came to life. Tiktaalik Eurypterids develop.
  • Devonian Period 395-345 MYA
    345 BCE

    Devonian Period 395-345 MYA

    Armored fish go extinct but, there is an abundance of several other species of fish. The earliest amphibians and ammonites come to life.
  • Carboniferous Period 345-280 MYA
    280 BCE

    Carboniferous Period 345-280 MYA

    Abundance in sharks and amphibians. Swamplands and coal forming forest. Earliest reptiles, scale trees, and seed farms are very common. After most of the plants died they would become coal like.
  • Permian Period 280-225 MYA
    225 BCE

    Permian Period 280-225 MYA

    Extinction of many types of marine animals including trilobites due to the large volcanic eruptions. 95% of all marine species and 50% of all animals went extinct.
  • Triassic Period 225-195 MYA
    195 BCE

    Triassic Period 225-195 MYA

    Earliest dinosaurs,abundant cycods and conifers.
  • Jurassic Period 195-136 MYA
    136 BCE

    Jurassic Period 195-136 MYA

    Earliest feathered birds and mammals, abundant dinosaurs and ammonites. Ferns, cycads and grasses are the most common land plants in this period.
  • Cretaceous Period 136-65 MYA
    65 BCE

    Cretaceous Period 136-65 MYA

    Earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction. Great decline of brachiopods. Abundance of bony fish. Extinction of 65% of species including dinosaurs.
  • Tertiary Period 65-1.8 MYA
    2 BCE

    Tertiary Period 65-1.8 MYA

    Earliest placental mammals,modern mammals, large running animals.
  • Quarternary Period 1.8-Present Day
    1 BCE

    Quarternary Period 1.8-Present Day

    Large carnivores,neanderthals,humans and mastodons.