Geolical

the geologic column

  • Headen
    41,000 BCE

    Headen

    Formation of earth (inabitant)
  • Archean
    40,000 BCE

    Archean

    earth become abitable spontaneos generation of first cells
  • Proterozoic
    38,000 BCE

    Proterozoic

    simple multicellular sea creatures develop
  • cambriam
    35,000 BCE

    cambriam

    sudden explotion of life
  • ordovician
    33,000 BCE

    ordovician

    trilobites abundant; some vertebrates
  • silurian
    30,000 BCE

    silurian

    land colonized by arthropods and plants
  • devonian
    29,000 BCE

    devonian

    first amphibians; freshwatere fish
  • mississippian
    26,000 BCE

    mississippian

    famphibians spread; sharks and bony fish
  • pennsylvanian
    24,000 BCE

    pennsylvanian

    giant insects; first reptiles
  • permian
    21,000 BCE

    permian

    modern insect; reptiles spread;evergreens
  • triassic
    19,000 BCE

    triassic

    first dinosaurs;rise of mamal
  • jurassic
    17,000 BCE

    jurassic

    giant dinosaurs; early birds
  • cretaceous
    15,000 BCE

    cretaceous

    mass extinctiions(including dinosaurs)flowering plants appear
  • paleocene epoch
    13,000 BCE

    paleocene epoch

    early mammals became dominant
  • oligocene
    10,000 BCE

    oligocene

    primitive apes; whales; first modern mammals
  • pliocene
    8000 BCE

    pliocene

    peak of mammals; modern invertebrates
  • pleistocene
    6000 BCE

    pleistocene

    ice age(s); mass estinctions; rise of human
  • recent (holocene)
    4000 BCE

    recent (holocene)

    end of ice age; rise of human civilization