| Earth History, from the end ... |
| Eon |
Era |
Period |
Geological Events |
Biological Events |
|   |
  |
Quaternary |
Great Lakes
Series of Ice Ages |
Cro-Magnons
Mammoths
Australopithecus |
|   |
Cenozoic |
Tertiary |
Colarado Plateau |
Radiation of Mammals |
|   |
65 million years ago |
Asteroid Impact!! |
K-T Extinction |
|   |
100 million |
Cretaceous |
  |
Tyrannosaurus - Sue
Triceratops
Dinosaur Nesting
Velociraptor
Flowering Plants
|
| Phanerozoic |
Mesozoic
200 million |
Jurassic |
Morrison formation Break-Up of Pangaea |
Early Birds
Megalosaurus
Pterosaurs
|
|   |
  |
Triassic |
  |
  |
|   |
245 million years ago |
  |
P-T Extinction |
|   |
  |
Permian |
Pangaea |
  |
|   |
300 million |
Carboniferous |
Cyclothems
|
Pelycosaurs |
|   |
Paleozoic
400 million |
Devonian |
Appalachian Mtns |
First Amphibians
Paleozoic Fish |
|   |
  |
Silurian |
  |
  |
| Phanerozoic |
  |
Ordovician |
  |
  |
|   |
500 million |
Cambrian |
  |
Trilobites
Burgess Shale Fauna
Cambrian Explosion
Tommotian Fauna
|
|   |
544 million years ago |
  |
Evolution of Hard-Parts |
|   |
600 million |
  |
  |
Ediacara fauna |
|   |
700 million |
  |
Snowball Earth episodes |
  |
| Proterozoic |
Neo- proterozoic
800 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
900 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
1,000 million |
  |
Rodinia |
  |
| Proterozoic |
1,100 million |
  |
Grenville Orogeny |
  |
|   |
1,200 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
1,300 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Proterozoic |
Meso- proterozoic
1,400 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
1,500 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
1,600 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Proterozoic |
1,700 million |
  |
  |
First Eukaryotes |
|   |
1,800 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
1,900 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Proterozoic |
2,000 million |
  |
Atmospheric O2 |
  |
|   |
Paleo- proterozoic
2,100 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
2,200 million |
  |
Early Proterozoic Glaciation |
  |
| Proterozoic |
2,300 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
2,400 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
  |
  |
  |
Stromatolites Common |
|   |
2,500 million years ago |
Sizable Continents |
  |
| Archean |
2,600 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
2,700 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
2,800 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Archean |
2,900 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
3,000 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
3,100 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Archean |
3,200 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
3,300 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
3,400 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Archean |
3,500 million |
  |
  |
Earliest Fossils |
|   |
3,600 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
3,700 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Archean |
3,800 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
3,900 million |
 
|
Oldest Rocks |
  |
|   |
4,000 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Archean |
4,100 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
4,200 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
4,300 million |
  |
  |
  |
| Archean |
4,400 million |
  |
  |
  |
|   |
4,500 million
|
  |
  |
  |
|   |
4,560 million years ago |
Formation of the Earth |
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| ... to the beginning! |