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| Eras |
Periods |
Epochs/Series |
Life on Earth |
C E N O Z O I C |
Quaternary |
Recent/Holocene Pleistocene |
Rise and Dominance of Man |
| Tertiary |
Pliocene Miocene Oligocene Eocene Paleocene |
Modern Plants and _____Animals Flurish_____ Rapid Development of Mammals, Insects, and Plants |
M E S O Z O I C |
Cretaceous |
Gulfian Comanchean Coalhuilan |
Mass Extinction Last of the Great Dinosaurs Last Ammonites ____Primitive Mammals____ Rise of Flowering Plants |
| Jurassic |
Upper Jurassic Middle Jurassic Liassic |
First Mammals and Birds Diversification of Dinosaurs Coniferous Trees |
| Triassic |
Upper Triassic Middle Triassic Sythian |
The Rise of Dinosaurs Cycad-like Plants Bony Fishes Develope |
P A L E O Z O I C |
Permian |
Upper Permian Lower Permian |
Greatest Mass Extinction Rise of Reptiles |
| Pennsylvanian |
Upper Pennsylvanian Middle Pennsylvanian Morrowan |
Modern Insects Develope The Great Coal Deposites Primitive Conifers, Seed Ferns |
| Mississippian |
Chesterian Meramecian Osagian Kinderhookian |
Plants Flurish on Land Crinoids Build Massive Limestones Climax of Shell-Crushing Sharks Primitive Ammonites |
| Devonian |
Chautauquan Senecan Erian Ulsterian |
Climax of Brachiopods First Amphibians First Land Snails Primitive Land Plants |
| Silurian |
Cayugan Niagarian Alexandrian |
First Lungfishes First Traces of Life on Land Widespread Coral Reefs |
| Ordovician |
Cincinnatian Champlainian Canadian |
Climax of Trilobites First Fish Appear First Appearence of many Marine Invertebrates Groups |
| Cambrian |
Croxian Albertan Waucoban |
Trilobites Dominate Marine Invertebrates Flurish and Diversify |
Proterozoic Archeozoic |
Marine Invertebrates Appear First Signs of Life |