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Cambrian 570-500 MYA
earliest record of marine life -
Ordovician 500-435 MYA
invertebrates are dominant, mollusks become abundant -
silurian 435- 395 MYA
earlest terrestrial plants and animals -
Devonian 395- 345 MYA
armored fish go extinct, but abundance of several species of fish. -
Carboniferous 345- 280 MYA
earliest reptiles. -
Permian 280 - 225 MYA
Extinctin of many types of marine animals including trilobites -
Triassic 225- 195 MYA
earliest dinosaurs, abundant cycads and conifers. -
Jurassic 195- 136 MYA
earliest birds and mammals abundant dinosaurs and ammonites. -
Cretaceous 136 - 65 MYA
earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction. -
Trtiary
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Quaternary 1.8- present