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cambrain prd. 570 MYA
Early record of marine life -
Period: to
Paleozoic
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Ordovician
more marine life, star fish, sand dollers ect. -
Silurian
earliest terrestial plant -
Devonian
Earliest amphibians and ammonites -
Carboniferous
earliest reptiles, scale trees, and seed ferns -
Permian
extinction of many marine life -
Triassic
early dinosaurs -
Period: to
Mesozoic
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Jurassic
early birds and mamals -
Cretaceous
early flowering plants -
Tertiary
early placental mamals -
Period: to
Cenozoic
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Quaternary
large carnivores, neanderthals, humans, and mastodons