The Geologic Column

By enrique2018
  • 11,477 BCE

    Era

    Era
    Cenozoic: end of last Ice Age; rise of human civilization

  • mesozoic

    mesozoic
    mass extintions (including dinosaurs); flowering plants appear

  • quanternary

    quanternary
    recent (heolocene) Epoch
    plistocene Epoch

  • proterozoic

    simple multicelular sea creatures develop

  • Paleozoic

    Paleozoic
    modern insect; reptiles spread; evergreens

  • pennsylvanian

    pennsylvanian
    giant insects; first reptiles

  • mississippian

    mississippian
    amphibians spread; sharks and bony fish; winged insects

  • Devonian

    Devonian
    first amphibians;fresh wáter fish; wingless insects

  • Silurian

    Silurian
    land colonized by anthropods and plants

  • Ordovician

    Ordovician
    trilobites abundant; vertebrates increase

  • cambrian

    cambrian
    sudden explosión of life; tribolites dominant; rise of other marine invertebrates; some vertebrates

  • tertiary

    tertiary
    pilociene epoch
    miocene epoch
    oligocene epoch
    eocene epoch
    paleocene epoch