Geologic columns

geologic column

  • Triassic
    251,000 BCE

    Triassic

    firsts dinosaurs; rise of mammal-like reptiles
    year:251,000,000
  • Cretaceous
    145,500 BCE

    Cretaceous

    mass extincion(including dinosaurs);flowering plants appear year:145,500,000
  • Paleocene
    65,000 BCE

    Paleocene

    early mammals become dominant;rise of modern birds year:65,500,000
  • Eocene
    55,800 BCE

    Eocene

    firsts horses year:55,800,000
  • cambrian
    54,200 BCE

    cambrian

    sudden explocion of life;tribles dominant; rise of other marine invertebrates;some invertebrates
    year:542,000,00
  • Pilocene
    53,000 BCE

    Pilocene

    peak of mammals; modern invertebrates year:5,300,000
  • ordovician
    48,830 BCE

    ordovician

    trilobites abundant;vertebrates increase
    year:488,300,000
  • Silurian
    41,600 BCE

    Silurian

    land colonized by atropods and plants
    year:416,000,000
  • devonian
    41,600 BCE

    devonian

    firsts amphibians; freshwater fish; wingless insects
    year:416,000,000
  • mississippian
    36,900 BCE

    mississippian

    amphibians spread; sharks and bony fish; winged insects
    year:359,200,000
  • Oligocene
    33,900 BCE

    Oligocene

    primitive apes;whales;firsts modern mammals year:33,900,000
  • pennsylvanian
    31,810 BCE

    pennsylvanian

    giant insects;firsts reptiles
    year:318,100,000
  • Permian
    29,900 BCE

    Permian

    modern insects; reptiles spread;evergreens; extinsion of trilobies
    year:299,000,000
  • Miocene
    23,000 BCE

    Miocene

    rise of grazing mammals year:23,000,000
  • Jurasic
    19,960 BCE

    Jurasic

    giant dinosaurs;early birds;firsts mammals year:199,600,000
  • Pleistocene
    18,000 BCE

    Pleistocene

    ice ages;mass exttincion;rise of man year:1,800,000
  • Recent(Holocene) epoch
    11,477 BCE

    Recent(Holocene) epoch

    end of ice age;rise of human civilization year:11,477
  • Haedan
    4000 BCE

    Haedan

    formation of earth (unnhabitable) year: over 4,000,000,000
  • Archean eon
    4000 BCE

    Archean eon

    earth become habitable;spontaneous generations of firsts cells; rise of bacteria and cyno bacteria year: after 4,000,000,000
  • Proterozoic eon
    2500 BCE

    Proterozoic eon

    simple multicellular;algae and plankton develop;eukryotik cells develop
    year: 2,500,000