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Cambrian Period
Trilabites were dominant. Marine life was abundant. Atmosphere was oxygen rich -
Ordovician Period 500-435
Molluscs become abundant. Earliest fish are jawless. -
Silurian Period 435-395
Earliest terristorial plants and animals. -
Devonian Period 395-345
Amored fish go exstinct. Abundance of fish. Earliest amphibians -
Carboniferous Period 345-280
Abundant sharks and amphibians.Largest swamps and forests. Earliest reptiles, scale trees and seed ferns. -
Permian Period 280-225
Extinction of many marine animals, even trilobites. -
Triassic Period 225-195
Earliest dinosaurs. Abundant cycads and conifers. -
Jurassic Period 195-136
Earliest birds and mammals. Abundant dinosaurs and ammonities. -
Cretaceous Period 136-65
Earliest flowering plants. Climax f dinosaurs followed by their extinction. Great decline of brachiopads. Abundance of bony fish. -
Tertiary Period 65-1.8
Earliest plancental mammals. Modern mammals. Large running mammals. -
Quaternary Period 1.8-Present
Large carnivores. Neanderthals, humans, mastadons.