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Earkiest record of marine life. Triolobites are dominant.
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Echinoderms (starfish,sand dollar, etc.)
Invertebrates were dominant. Mollusks became abundant and earliest fish that were jawless and later jawed and armored fish were present. -
Earliest terrestrial plants and animals. Tikataalik Euryoterids develop.
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Armored fish go extinct but there was an abundance of several species of fish. Earliest amphibians and ammonites.
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The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian. Abundant sharks and amphibians. There were large swamps and coal was forming. Earliest reptiles found.
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Extinction of many types of marine animals including trilobites.
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Earliest dinosaurs and abundant cycads and conifers.
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Earliest birds and mammals were abundant. Dinosaurs and ammonites were also present.
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Earliest flowering plants. Climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction. Great decline of brachiopods. There was an abundance of bony fish.
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Earliest placental mammals. Modern mammals and large running mammals werre present as well.
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Large carnivores and neanderthals. Humans evolved and mastodons.
