lino's geologic timeline

By linjic
  • cambrien period 570-500 mya

    cambrien period 570-500 mya

    This is the oldest period known to man. It is about 5 times longer than the paleozoic and the mesozoic periods combined.Periods within the cambrien:Proterozoic, Archean
  • Period: to

    paleozoic era

  • ordovician period 500-435 mya

    ordovician period 500-435 mya

    Invertabrates are dominant, mollusks become abundant, and later on some jawless and armored fish come into the world.
  • silurian period 435-395 mya

    silurian period 435-395 mya

    Earliest terrestrial plants and animals.
  • devonian period 395-345 mya

    devonian period 395-345 mya

    Armored fish go extinct but abundance of several species of fish. Earliest amphibians and ammonites.
  • carboniferous period 345-280 mya

    carboniferous period 345-280 mya

    Some sharks and amphibians with large swamps and coal forming forests.
  • permian period 280-225 mya

    permian period 280-225 mya

    Extinction of many types of marine animals including trilobites.
  • Period: to

    mesozoic era

  • triassic period 225-195 mya

    triassic period 225-195 mya

    Earliest dinosaurs, abundant cycads and conifers.
  • jurassic period 195-136 mya

    jurassic period 195-136 mya

    Earliest birds and mammals, abundant dinosaurs and ammonites.
  • cretaceous period 136-65 mya

    cretaceous period 136-65 mya

    Climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction. Great decline of brachiopods. Abundance of bony fish.
  • Period: to

    cenozoic era

  • tertiary period 65-1.8 mya

    tertiary period 65-1.8 mya

    Earliest Placental Mammals, modern mammals, large running mammals.
  • quaternary period 1.8-present

    quaternary period 1.8-present

    Humans and all the other well known mammals appear.