Earth's Geologic Timeline

  • Cambrian

    Cambrian
    Trilobites
  • Period: to

    Paleozoic

    The first stage of the new and upcoming Earth
    Old Life
  • Ordovician

    Ordovician
    Starfish, Sand dollar , sea urchin and sea cucumbers
  • Silurian

    Silurian
    Earliest terrestrial plants and animals
  • Devonian

    Devonian
    Armored fish goes extinct
  • Carboniferous

    Carboniferous
    Abundant sharks and amphibians
  • Permian

    Permian
    Extinction of many types of marine animals including Trilobites
  • Period: to

    Mesozoic

    Middle Life
  • Triassic

    Triassic
    Earliest Dinosaurs, adundant cycads and conifers
  • Jurrassic

    Jurrassic
    Earliest birds and mammals adundant dinosaurs and ammonites
  • Cretaceous

    Cretaceous
    Earliest flowering plants, climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction
  • Period: to

    Cenozoic

  • Tertiary

    Tertiary
    Earliest Placental Mammals, modern mammals , large running mammals
  • Quaternary

    Quaternary
    Large Carnivores, Neanderthals, Humans, mastodons