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Precambrian Time (4600)
EVENT22.Trilobites appeared.EVENT23.Shelled brachiopods appear. -
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Cambrian Period (542)
EVENT30.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. -
Silurian Period (444)
EVENT24. Eurypterids, sea stars and coral become more common.EVENT33. Vascular land plants and animals, such as scorpions begin to evolve on land. -
Devonian Period (416)
EVENT31.Huge plants begin to develop, early amphibians form.EVENT37. Age of fishes, fish that can breath out of the water and spend time on land form. -
Mississippian Period (359)
EVENT2.Swamps and forests cover the land. EVENT8.Appalachian Mountains are created because of the collision of tectonic plates &savannah form. -
Pennsylvanian Period (318)
EVENT4.Giant cockroaches appear. EVENT15.Coal deposits form. -
Permian Period (299)
EVENT38. Environmental changes causes mass extinction of sea invertebrates (trilobites & eurypterids) as the seas retreat. -
Triassic Period (251)
EVENT16. Welcome to the world of the Dinosaur!Enter the squirrel sized dinosaur & the first forest dwelling mammals appear. -
Jurassic Period (200)
EVENT3. Flying reptiles called pterosaurs are in the air now.EVENT13.Whoa those dinos are getting big &dominate the land-Lizard hipped and bird-hipped appear- carnivores and herbivores have arrived. -
Cretaceous Period (146)
EVENT5. First flowering plants appear-angiosperm. EVENT35.Impact hypothesis-dinosaur mass extinction. -
Paleocene Period (65.5)
EVENT12.First primates evolve. -
Eocene Period (55.8)
EVENT17.Flying squirrels, whales and bats appear.EVENT26.First modern horses appear. -
Oligocene Period (33.9)
EVENT29.Small rodents evolve. -
Miocene Period (23.0)
EVENT20.Species that did not evolve to survive extreme cold moved warmer climate areas or became extinct (dire wolf & giant ground sloth) -
Pleistocene Period (1.8)
EVENT9.Homosapien (modern humans) appeared and are hunters. -
Holocene Period (0.0115)
EVENT19.The last glacial period ended and sea levels rose, Great Lakes formed.EVENT28.Modern human developed agriculture and used tools made of bronze and iron. -
Anthropocene Period (Current Time)
EVENT14.There is an argument as to when this epoch began, some scientists think it began with the industrial age in the early 1800's , others think it began with the atomic age in the 1950's.EVENT28.Modern humans developed agriculture and used tools made of bronze and iron.