La tierra

History of the Earth

  • Period: 4600 BCE to 541 BCE

    Precambrian

    Guide Fossil: Estromatolitos
    Geological Event: Early evolution of the Earth
    Climate Event : It passes from a reducing atmosphere to an oxidizing atmosphere.
  • 3800 BCE

    1st Life Forms - 4:10h

    1st Life Forms - 4:10h
    Unicellular and prokaryotes life forms in the marine environment.
  • 1500 BCE

    1st most complex life forms - 9:07h

    1st most complex life forms - 9:07h
    The first eukaryotic cells and the first multicellular organisms appeared.
  • Period: 541 BCE to 252 BCE

    Paleozoic

    Guide Fossil: Tribolites Trilobites
    Geological Event: Rodinia fragmented and formed the supercontinent Pangea
    Climate Event: The cold climate alternated with warmer periods
  • 520 BCE

    Great explosion of life - 21:10h

    Great explosion of life - 21:10h
    Various forms of life and the first vertebrate organisms appeared.
  • 500 BCE

    Age of the fish - 21:37h

    Age of the fish - 21:37h
    Fish appeared, which were the first vertebrates that populated those primitive seas.
  • 485 BCE

    First terrestrial plants (gymnosperms) - 21:48h

    First terrestrial plants (gymnosperms) - 21:48h
    The first plants without flowers colonize the terrestrial environment.
  • 395 BCE

    Amphibian age - 22:13h

    Amphibian age - 22:13h
    The first vertebrates to conquer the terrestrial environment.
  • 320 BCE

    Age of the reptiles - 22:43h

    Age of the reptiles - 22:43h
    They emerge from one of the evolutionary lines of amphibians. The first ones were small.
  • Period: 252 BCE to 66 BCE

    Mesozoic

    Guide Fossil: Ammonites
    Geological Event: Fragmentation of Pangea
    Climate Event: Warm climate, no glaciations in this Age.
  • 145 BCE

    1st angiosperms - 23:22h

    1st angiosperms - 23:22h
    First flowering plants appear
  • 140 BCE

    Age of the birds - 23:39h

    Age of the birds - 23:39h
    Great variety of birds appear
  • Period: 66 BCE to

    Cenozoic

    Guide Fossil: Nummulites
    Geological Event: Formation of the polar caps
    Climate Event: There were 4 glaciations
  • 2 BCE

    1st hominids - 23:53h

    1st hominids - 23:53h
    The first human ancestors appear
  • 1 BCE

    1st Homo sapiens - 23:59h

    1st Homo sapiens - 23:59h
    Oldest remains of homosapien