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Period: to
Precambrian time
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First crustal rock forms
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Earths surface is cool enough for liquid watern
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First known unicellular life appears
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Earths atmosphere starts to becme oxygen rich
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First known multicellular life appears
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First fungi appear
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First shelled organisms, such as arthropods ans mollusks, ppear
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Period: to
Palezoic Era
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First possible vertebrates appear
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Modern, oxygen-rich atmosphere has formed
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First land plants appear
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First athropodsappear 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 Era
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Pangea begins to break apart
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First mammals appear
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First primative birds appear
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First flowering plants appear
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First modern birds appear
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The last dinosaurs become extinct. Castrophic meteroit appears
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Period: to
Cenozoic Era
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Most modern mammal families, including whales, carnivores, hooved animalsand primates have appeared
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First grasses appear
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India collides with Asia and Antartica drifts over South pole
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First hominids appear
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Modern Ice Age begin
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Modern humans appear