Skylar's Geologic timeline

  • Tertiary
    65

    Tertiary

    Earliest placental mammals, modern mammals, large roaming mammals.
  • Cretaceous
    136

    Cretaceous

    Early flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs, followed by their extinction. Great extinction. Great decline of brachiopods. Abundance of bony fish.
  • Jurassic
    195

    Jurassic

    Earliest birds and mammals. Abundance of dinosaurs and ammonites.
  • Triassic
    225

    Triassic

    Earliest dinosaurs, abundance of cycads and conifers.
  • Permian
    280

    Permian

    Extinction of many types of marine animals.
  • Carboniferous
    345

    Carboniferous

    Abundant shark and amphibians. Large swamps and coal forming forest. Earliest reptiles. Scale trees and seed ferns.
  • Devonian
    395

    Devonian

    Armored fish go extinct, but abundance of several species of fish exist. Earliest amphibians and ammonites.
  • Silurian
    435

    Silurian

    Earliest terrestrial plants and animals, tiktaalik eurypterids develop.
  • Ordovician
    500

    Ordovician

    Invertebrates are dominant, mollusks become abundant, earliest fish that are jawless and later jawed and armored fish.
  • Cambrian
    570

    Cambrian

    Earliest record of marine life trilobites are dominant.
  • Quaternary

    Quaternary

    Large carnivores/ neanderthals, mastodons.
  • Present

    Present

    Humans, mass technology, education, ability to travel to space, cheeto for president.