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J Gonzalez Timeline

  • Cambrian

    Cambrian
    1; There is very little plant life 23; Shelled brachiopods appear
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    Geological Timescale
  • Ordovician

    Ordovician
    24; Eurypterids, sea star, and coral become more common 30; grapholites flourish, fish did not have jaws or teeth.
  • Silurian

    Silurian
    5; First flowering plants appear 21; Early reptiles resembling large lizards appear
  • Devonian

    Devonian
    33 Vascular land plants and animals, such as scorpions begin to evolve on land. 37; Age of Fishes, fish that can breathe out of water and spend time on land form
  • Carboniteous

    Carboniteous
    11; Nearly half of the valuable mineral deposits in the world occur in the rocks of this period 15; coal deposits form.
  • Mississippian

    Mississippian
    2; Swamps and forests cover the land 31;huge plants develop, early amphibians form
  • Pennsylvanian

    Pennsylvanian
    4; Giant cockroaches appear 32; Antarctic icecaps begin to form
  • Permian

    Permian
    6; Himalayas develop due to uplifting caused by the Indian subcontinent and Eurasian continents colliding 38; Enviromental change causes mass extinction.
  • Triassic

    Triassic
    16; Welcome to the world of Dinosaur! 27; Many early mammals become extinct.
  • Jurassic

    Jurassic
    3;Flying reptiles are in the air now. 13; Whoa those dines are getting big.
  • Cretaceous

    Cretaceous
    34; Ichthyosaurs are living in the ocean 35; Impact hypothesis
  • Eocene

    Eocene
    17; Flying squirrels, whales, and bats appear 26; First modern horses appear.
  • Palocene

    Palocene
    12; first primates evolve 29; small rodents appear
  • Oligocene

    Oligocene
    8; Appalachian mountains form 10; shallow seas covered much of earth.
  • Miocene

    Miocene
    25; World wide temperatures begin to drop 36; Mediterranean sea dries and refills
  • Pliocene

    Pliocene
    20; species that did not develop died 18; various species migrated
  • Pleistocene

    Pleistocene
    9; Humans appear and are hunters 25; world wide temperatures drop.
  • Holocene

    Holocene
    19; last glacial period ends.28; modern humans develop
  • ANthropocene

    ANthropocene
    7; human kind messes a lot of stuff up
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