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Hadeon eon
Chaotic eon
No life
extremely hot
Archean eon
-Earth stabilized enough to form continents and life
Proterozoic eon
-longest eon
-great oxidation event
Phanerozoic Eon
Our current eon
Paleozoic era, Cambrian Period
Rapid diversification of life.
Paleozoic era, Ordovician period
Booming with marine life
first vertebrae appeared
first plant appeared
Paleozoic era, Silurian period
Layers of limestone found from this period
First land plants appeared
First land animal appeared
Paleozoic era, Devonian period
Dawn of forests
age of fishes
first amphibians appeared
Paleozoic era, Carboniferous period
majority of earth’s coal came from this period
earth’s climate grew warmer
rise of amphibians
first reptiles appeared
Paleozoic era, Permian period
first mass extinction
diversification of reptiles
Mesozoic era, Triassic period
first appearance of dinosaurs
Gave way for new mammals, reptiles, and marine life
Mesozoic era, Jurassic period
Diversification of dinosaurs
first bird-like creatures appeared
Mesozoic era, Cretaceous period
Breakup of Pangea
diversification of flowering plants
extinction of dinosaurs
mammal dominated
Cenozoic era
our current era
Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Paleocene epoch
Diversification of mammals
Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Eocene epoch
very warm epoch
rise of birds, reptiles, mammals
forests covered the earth
Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Oligocene epoch
New animals appeared
earth became cooler
new environments appeared
ice sheets formed
Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Miocene epoch
Rise of modern ecosystems
emergence of grasslands
Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Pliocene epoch
transitional epoch
climate changes into cooler and drier climate
mass expansion of grasslands and savannahs
Quaternary period
our current period
Cenozoic era, quaternary period, Pleistocene epoch
Ice age
human evolution and diversification
Cenozoic era, quaternary period, Holocene epoch
our current epoch
shaped by human civilization