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145
Cretaceous
Flowering plants proliferated, along with new types of insects that pollinate them. -
200
Jurassic
The first birds and lizards appeared, Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs were diverse in the ocean. -
251
Triassic
Dinosaurs appeared and became dominant, as did ichthyosaurs and nothosaurs in the seas and pterosaurs in the air. -
444
Silurian
The first vascular plants appeared, plants with specialized tissues for conducting water and nutirents along with the first plants on land. -
Mesoproterozoic
Abotu 1,300 million years ago the first mountains were formed in North Carolina -
Pleistocene
Many large mammals flourished, then beacame extinct. Anatomically modern humas evolved. -
Pilocene
The first species of the genus Homo to which humans appeared. -
Miocene
Modern mammals and bird families became recongizable. Grasses spread across the globe, and the first apes appeared. -
Oligocene
Animals but especially mammals evolved rapidaly and became more diverse. -
Eocene
The first grasses appeared. Some of the first modern families of mammals emerged, and primitive whales diversified. -
Paleocene
Early mammals diverse, and the first large mammals appeared. The worlds climate was still tropical, but gradually begam to cool. -
Carboniferous/Missippian
Amphibians were common and diverse. Also the first reptiles appeared. -
Ordovician
The first tiny vertebrates appeared. -
Permian
Amphibians remained common but small, while reptiles grew larger and diversified. -
Holocene
The climate stablized as the glaciers retreated, making agriculture possible. -
Holocene
Human civilization emerged.