Krystelle Geologic Timeline

  • Cambrian 570M-500M
    570 BCE

    Cambrian 570M-500M

    Oceans covered the Earth's surface. All life was marine and mostly consisted of trilobites.
  • Ordovician 500M-435M
    500 BCE

    Ordovician 500M-435M

    Echinoderms, invertebrates, mollusks, fish, jawed and armored fish.
  • Silurian 435M-395M
    435 BCE

    Silurian 435M-395M

    Animals were starting to go on land. Plants and animals, Tiktaalik, eurypterids existed.
  • Devonian 395M-345M
    395 BCE

    Devonian 395M-345M

    Fish (armored extinct), amphibians and ammonites.
  • Carboniferous 345M-280M
    345 BCE

    Carboniferous 345M-280M

    The Earth's surface was tropical swamplands. Reptiles, scale trees, seed farms, sharks and amphibians.
  • Permian 280M-225M
    280 BCE

    Permian 280M-225M

    Extinction of many marine animals including trilobites due to a mantle plume.
  • Triassic 225M-195M
    225 BCE

    Triassic 225M-195M

    Earliest dinosaurs, cycads, conifers.
  • Jurassic 195M-136M
    195 BCE

    Jurassic 195M-136M

    Earliest birds, mammals, dinosaurs, ammonites.
  • Cretaceous 136M-65M
    136 BCE

    Cretaceous 136M-65M

    Earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs followed by extinction, decline in brachiopods, bony fish.
  • Tertiary 65M-1.8M
    65 BCE

    Tertiary 65M-1.8M

    Earliest placental mammals, modern mammals, large running mammals.