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Period: 541 BCE to 250 BCE
Paleozoic ERA
Age of invertebrates -
Period: 541 BCE to 485 BCE
Cambrian
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510 BCE
Many marine invertebrates with external skeleton (Arthropods)
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Period: 485 BCE to 444 BCE
Ordovisian
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460 BCE
Fish without jaws
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Period: 444 BCE to 419 BCE
Silurian
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430 BCE
First land plants
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Period: 419 BCE to 359 BCE
Devonian
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405 BCE
First anphibians
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Period: 359 BCE to 299 BCE
Carboniferous
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320 BCE
First reptiles
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Period: 299 BCE to 252 BCE
Permian
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270 BCE
Reptiles diversify
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Period: 252 BCE to 66 BCE
Mesozoic ERA
The Earth's greastest extinction occurs Pangea forms -
Period: 252 BCE to 201 BCE
Triassic
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Period: 245 BCE to 201 BCE
Jurassic
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225 BCE
First dinosaurs
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170 BCE
Dinosaurs diversify
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Period: 145 BCE to 66 BCE
Cretaceous
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100 BCE
Extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites
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Period: 66 BCE to 2 BCE
Tertiary
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Period: 66 BCE to 1 BCE
Cenozoic ERA
Age of mammals
Massive extinction from a meteorite impact -
30 BCE
Development and diversifications of mammals
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Period: 2 BCE to 50
Quaternary