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Period: to
Precambrian Time
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Earths surface is cool enough for liquid water
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First known unicellular life appears
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Earths atmosphere starts to become oxygen rich
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First known multicellar life appears
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First fungi appear
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First shelled organisms, such as arthopods and mollusks, appear.
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Period: to
Paleozoic Time
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First possible vertabrates appear
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Modern, oxygen-rich atmosphere has formed.
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First land appears
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First anthropods appear on land
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First amphibians appear
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First reptiles appear
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Formation of pangea is complete
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Permian mass extinction results from major enviromental changes
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Period: to
Mesozoic Time
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Pangea begins to break apart
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First mammals appear
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First primitive birds appear
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First flowering plants (angiosperms) appear
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First modern birds appear
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The last dinosaurs become extinct. Catastarphic merteorite impct occurs.
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Modern mammal famlilies, including whales, carnivores, hoofed animals, and primates have apeared.
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Period: to
Cenozoic Time
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First grasses appear
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India collides with asai and antartica drifts over the south pole
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First hominids (early human ancestors appear)
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Modern ice age begins
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Modern humans appear