Earth time periods

  • Cambrian 570m-500m

    Cambrian 570m-500m
    Earlist record of marine life- trilobites are dominant
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    Palleozoic

    Old life
  • Ordovician 500m-435m

    Ordovician 500m-435m
    Echinoderms(starfish, sand dollar, sea urchin and sea cucumbers) Invertabres are dominant, mullusks become abundant. Earlist fish that are jawless and later jawed and amored fish.
  • Silurian 435m-395m

    Silurian 435m-395m
    Earlist terrestrial plants and animals. tikaaliik euryplorids devolpe
  • Devonian 395-345m

    Devonian 395-345m
    Armored fish go extinct, but abundance of several species of fish. earlist amphibians and ammonites
  • Carboniferous 345-280m

    Carboniferous 345-280m
    Abundant sharks and amphibians. Large swamps and coal forming forests. Earlist reptiles. Scale trees and seed ferns
  • Parmain 280-225m

    Parmain 280-225m
    Extinction of many types of marine animals including trillubites
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    Mesozoic period-

    middle life
  • Triassic 225m-195m

    Triassic 225m-195m
    Earlist Dinosuars, abundant cycads and conifers
  • Jurassic 195m-135m

    Jurassic 195m-135m
    Earlist birds, and mammals. Abundant dinosuars and ammonites
  • Cretaceas 136m-65m

    Cretaceas 136m-65m
    Earlist flowweing plants, climax of dinosuars followed by their extintion. Great decline of brachiopods. Abundance in bony fish
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    Cenozoic

    New life
  • Terriary period 65-1.8m

    Terriary period 65-1.8m
    Earlist placential mammals, modern mammals, large running mammals.
  • Quatemary 1.8m-present

    Large carnivors, neaderthols, humans mastoclones