epochs

  • Period: to

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    Geological timescale
  • cretaous

    cretaous
    5-First flowering plants appear-angiosperm
    35-impact hypothesis-dinosaur mass extinction
  • Jurassic

    Jurassic
    3-First flying reptiles called pterosaurs
    13-Whoa those dinos are getting bigger and dominant on land-carnivores and herbivores have arrived.
  • Triassic

    Triassic
    16-Welcome to the world of dinos. Enter the squirrel sized dino and the first forest dwelling mammals
    34-Ichthyosaurs are living in the ocean, new invertebrates appear.
  • Permain

    8-Appalachian Mountains are created because of the collision of tectonic plates.
    38- Environmental change cause mass extinction of sea invertebrates
  • Pennsayvanian

    4-Giant cockroaches appear
    15-coal deposits form
  • miss

    miss
    Early reptiles reassemble large reptiles
  • Devonian

    Devonian
    37-Age of fishes, fish that can breath out of water and spend time on land.
  • Silurian

    Silurian
    24- Eurypteriads, sea stars, and coral become more common
    33- Vascular land,plants,and animals such as scorpions evolve on land
  • Ordovician

    Ordovician
    1- There is very little plant life during this period
    30- Colonies of tiny invertebrates called graptolites flourished and vertebrates appear,fish did not have jaws or teeth and their bodies were covered with bony plates
  • Cambrian

    Cambrian
    22-Tribolites appear
    23-Shelled brachiopods apear
  • Precambrian

    Precambrian
    10-The presence of the Stomatolites indicate that shallow seas were dominant on Earth during those time intervals
    11- Nearly half of the valuable minerals deposits in the world occur in the rocks of this period.
  • Holocene

    Holocene
    28-Modern humans developed agriculture and used tools made of iron and bronze.
    19-The last glacier period ended and sea levels rose, Great lakes formed
  • Pleistocene

    Pleistocene
    20-Species that did not evolve to survive extreme cold moved to warmer climates areas or became extinct.
    9-Homsapians appeared and are hunters.
  • Pliocene

    Pliocene
    26-First modern horses appear
    18-Various species migrated between continents across land bridges.