History of life on earth
hadean archaeanproterozoicpaleozoicmesozoiccenozoic Millions of years ago
Precambrian Archaean Proterozoic Phaenerozoic Paleozoic Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Mesozoic Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic Tertiary Quaternary (Pleistocene - Recent)
Stromatolites -definitive fossil life 3.5BYA Precambrian - Archaean
Precambrian - Proterozoic Prokaryotes + Eukaryotes -trace fossils -Ediacaran fauna
Precambrian - Proterozoic Ediacaran fauna
Precambrian Archaean Proterozoic Phaenerozoic Paleozoic Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Mesozoic Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic Tertiary Quaternary (Pleistocene - Recent)
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Cambrian Cambrian explosion Why did such great fundamentally different body plans evolve in such great profusion in early evolutionary history but hardly at all thereafter? How and why did so many great changes evolve in such a short period of time? rapid diversification of higher taxa
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Cambrian
Burgess shale
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Cambrian Conodonts -earliest vertebrates -teeth of cellular bone
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Ordovician -fauna differs remarkably from Cambrian -fish-like vertebrates appear -large nautiloids
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Silurian Eurypterids - water scorpions
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Silurian -first gnathostomes Acanthodians Placoderms Osteichthyes
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Devonian -sarcopterygii, actinopterygii -ammonoids
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Devonian -chelicerates -mandibulates
Precambrian Archaean Proterozoic Phaenerozoic Paleozoic Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Mesozoic Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic Tertiary Quaternary (Pleistocene - Recent)
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Devonian -ichthyostega
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Carboniferous & Permian -sharks diversified
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Carboniferous & Permian -winged insects
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Carboniferous & Permian -amphibians diversified
Phaenerozoic - Paleozoic - Carboniferous & Permian reptiles mammals -amniotes gave rise to synapsids & diapsids
Precambrian Archaean Proterozoic Phaenerozoic Paleozoic Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Mesozoic Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic Tertiary Quaternary (Pleistocene - Recent)
Phaenerozoic - Mesozoic - Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous coccolithophores
Phaenerozoic - Mesozoic - Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous -frogs, lizards, snakes, turtles
Phaenerozoic - Mesozoic - Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous archosaurs
Phaenerozoic - Mesozoic - Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous Archosaurs phytosaurs pterosaurs crocodilians dinosaurs
Phaenerozoic - Mesozoic - Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous Dinosaurs saurischians theropods sauropods
Phaenerozoic - Mesozoic - Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous Dinosaurs ornithischians hadrosaurs ceratopsians
Precambrian Archaean Proterozoic Phaenerozoic Paleozoic Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Mesozoic Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic Tertiary Quaternary (Pleistocene - Recent)
Phaenerozoic - Cenozoic - Tertiary marsupials radiated colubrids radiated flightless birds appeared
Phaenerozoic - Cenozoic - Tertiary -bats & apes appear
Phaenerozoic - Cenozoic - Tertiary edentates
Phaenerozoic - Cenozoic - Tertiary artiodactyls
Phaenerozoic - Cenozoic - Tertiary perissodactyls
Phaenerozoic - Cenozoic - Tertiary teleosts diversified whales & sealions appeared
Precambrian Archaean Proterozoic Phaenerozoic Paleozoic Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Mesozoic Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic Tertiary Quaternary (Pleistocene - Recent)
Phaenerozoic - Cenozoic - Pleistocene - present similar fauna to today
Phaenerozoic - Cenozoic - Pleistocene - present 4 major glaciations -more to come