Geological Timeline

  • Period: 541 BCE to 250 BCE

    Paleozoic ERA

    Age of invertebrates
  • 500 BCE

    Cambriano

    Cambriano
    Many marine invertebrates with external skeleton
  • 460 BCE

    Ordovician

    Ordovician
    widespread marine algae
  • 420 BCE

    Silurian

    Silurian
    first plants
  • 370 BCE

    Devonian

    Devonian
    fish diversity, first anphibians
  • 325 BCE

    Carboniferous

    Carboniferous
    first reptiles, forest of giants ferms
  • 270 BCE

    Permian

    Permian
    reptiles diversity
  • Period: 252 BCE to 66 BCE

    Mezozoic ERA

    Age of dinosaurs
  • 225 BCE

    Triassic

    Triassic
    first dinosaurs, first mammals, the Earth's greatest extinction occurs Pangea forms
  • 160 BCE

    Jurassic

    Jurassic
    dinosaurs diversity, first flying and aquatic reptiles
  • 90 BCE

    Cretaceous

    Cretaceous
    first plants with flowers, extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites
  • Period: 66 BCE to 2 BCE

    Cenozoic Era

    Massive extintion from metheorite
  • 25 BCE

    Tertiary

    Tertiary
    development and diversitification of mamals
  • 15

    Quaternary

    Quaternary
    first humans