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earliest record of marine life
Trilobites are dominant -
Old Life
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Echinoderms( starfish, sand dollar, sea urchin, and cucumbers). Invertebrate are dominant, Earliest fish that were jawless and later, jawed and armored fish.
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earliest terrestrial plants and animals
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armored fish go extinct, but abundance of several species of fish.
earliest anphibians and amonites. -
abundant sharks and amphibians. Large swamps and coal forming forests. Earliest reptiles
Scale trees and seed ferns -
Extinction of many types of marine animals including trilobites
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Earliest dinosaurs
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Middle Life
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Earliest birds and mammals
abundant dinosaurs and ammonites -
Earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction. Great decline of brachiopods. Abundance of bony fish.
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Earliest Placental Mammals, modern mammals, large running mammals
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New Life
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Large Carnivores, Neauderthals, Humans, Mastodons