Malik's Geology Timeline

  • Cambrian 570 - 500 MYA

    Cambrian 570 - 500 MYA
    The beginning. Multicellular. Marine life Trilobites are dominant.
  • Ordovician 500 - 435 MYA

    Ordovician 500 - 435 MYA
    Echinoderms- Starfish, sand dollar, sea urchin & Sea cucumbers. Invertebrates are introduced.
  • Siluvian 285 M - 65 M

    Siluvian 285 M - 65 M
    Earliest Ferrestrial plants & animals.
  • Devonian

    Devonian
    Armored fish go extinct, but abundance of several species of fish
  • Carboniferous 345M - 280M

    Carboniferous 345M - 280M
    Abundant sharks and amphibians, Large swamps and coal apear.
  • Permian 280M - 225M

    Permian 280M - 225M
    Extinction of many types of marine animals including trilobites
  • Triassic 225M - 195M

    Triassic 225M - 195M
    Earliest dinosaurs, abundant cycades and conifers
  • Jurassic 195M - 135M

    Jurassic 195M - 135M
    Earliest birds and mammals. Abundant dinosaurs
  • Cretaceous 136M - 65M

    Cretaceous 136M - 65M
    Earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs following there extiction
  • Quaternary 1.8M - Present

    Quaternary 1.8M - Present
    Large Carnivores, Neanderthals, humans, and mostodons