luis salazar geologic timeline

  • 570-500 mya cambrian period
    570 BCE

    570-500 mya cambrian period

    Trilobites dominant, oceans dominated Earth, All life was marine
  • Ordovician 500-435 MYA
    500 BCE

    Ordovician 500-435 MYA

    Invertebrates were dominant, gondwana was the supercontinent, earliest fish evolved
  • silurian 435-395 MYA
    435 BCE

    silurian 435-395 MYA

    earliest terrestrial plants and animals , underwater life thrived
  • devonian 395-345 MYA
    395 BCE

    devonian 395-345 MYA

    armored fish go extinct but there's an abundance of several species of fish amphibians and ammonites
  • carboniferous 345-280 MYA
    345 BCE

    carboniferous 345-280 MYA

    abundant sharks and amphibians large swamps and coal forming forest earliest reptiles scale tress and seed ferns
  • permian 280-225 MYA
    280 BCE

    permian 280-225 MYA

    extinction of many types of marine animals including trilobites due to larger volcanic eruptions 95% of species went extinct
  • triassic 225-195 MYA
    225 BCE

    triassic 225-195 MYA

    earliest dinosaurs abundant cycads and conifers life outside of ocean began to diversify
  • jurassic 195-136 MYA
    195 BCE

    jurassic 195-136 MYA

    earliest birds and mammals abundant dinosaurs and ammonites
  • cretaceous 136-65 MYA
    136 BCE

    cretaceous 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 the dinosaurs
  • tertiary 65-1.8 MYA
    65 BCE

    tertiary 65-1.8 MYA

    earliest placental mammals, modern mammals large running mammals
  • quaternary 1.8-present
    1 CE

    quaternary 1.8-present

    large carnivores,neanderthals, humans, mastodons