Geological timeline

By Aura González Alayón
  • 550 BCE

    Cambrian explosion

    Cambrian explosion
    cambrian period
  • Period: 550 BCE to 240 BCE

    Paeleaozoic Era

  • Period: 550 BCE to 438 BCE

    Cambrian Period

  • 549 BCE

    Rodinia breaks up

    Rodinia breaks up
    the continent Rodinia starts to break
  • 538 BCE

    Invertebrates become common

    Invertebrates become common
    appearance of all invertebratres
  • 438 BCE

    Appearance of vertebrates

    Appearance of vertebrates
    Appearance of all vertebratres /
    Ordovician Period
  • Period: 438 BCE to 408 BCE

    Ordovician Period

  • Period: 408 BCE to 360 BCE

    Silurian Period

  • Period: 360 BCE to 286 BCE

    Devonian Period

  • 359 BCE

    New life

    New life
    New plants; early sharks; wingless insects
  • 359 BCE

    First trees and anphibians

    First trees and anphibians
    first appearance of trees and anphibians, age of the fish
  • Period: 286 BCE to 245 BCE

    Carboniferous Period

  • Period: 245 BCE to 208 BCE

    Permian Period

  • Period: 240 BCE to 100 BCE

    Mesozoic Era

  • 208 BCE

    Permian mass extincion

    Permian mass extincion
    Final of the Permian Period
  • Period: 206 BCE to 145 BCE

    Triassic Period

  • 147 BCE

    Pangaea begins to break up

    Pangaea begins to break up
    jurassic period
  • Period: 145 BCE to 65 BCE

    Jurassic Period

  • Period: 100 BCE to 50

    Caenozoic Era

  • Period: 65 BCE to 54 BCE

    Cretaceous Period

  • 54 BCE

    Raise of birds and placental mammals

    Raise of birds and placental mammals
  • Period: 54 BCE to 1 BCE

    Tertiary Period

  • 52 BCE

    The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction

    The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction
    The extintion of dinosaurs
  • Period: 1 BCE to 50

    Quaternary Period

  • 2

    First Humans

    First Humans
    First poblations
  • 50

    Humans envolve

    Humans envolve
    The human start to evolution