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570 BCE
Cambrian 570MYA- 500MYA
Earliest record of marine life. -
500 BCE
Ordovician 500MYA - 435MYA
Invertebrates are dominate. -
435 BCE
Silurian 435MYA-395MYA
Earliest terrestrial plants and animals. -
395 BCE
Devonian 395MYA-345MYA
Armoured fish go extinct, earliest amphibians and ammonites. -
345 BCE
Carboniferous 345MYA-280MYA
Sharks and amphibians large swamps coal farming forests. earliest reptiles -
280 BCE
Permian 280MYA-225MYA
Extinction of many types of marine animals including trilobites. -
195 BCE
Jurassic 195MYA-136MYA
Earliest birds, mammals, abundant dino's. -
1 CE
Quaternary 1.8MYA-Present Day
Large carnivores, neanderthals, humans, mastodons. -
65
Tertiary 65MYA-1.8MYA
Earliest placental mammals, modern mammals, large running animals. -
136
Cretaceous 136MYA-65MYA
Earliest flowering plant life. -
225
Triassic 225MYA-195MYA
Earliest dinosaurs.
