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Geologic Time Scale Overview

The document outlines the geologic time scale, dividing Earth's history into eons, eras, periods, and epochs. It describes the major life forms that existed during each period of the Phanerozoic Eon, from the Cambrian Period to the Holocene Epoch. Key events include the extinction of dinosaurs, the rise of mammals and flowering plants, and the evolution of modern humans.

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Geologic Time Scale Overview

The document outlines the geologic time scale, dividing Earth's history into eons, eras, periods, and epochs. It describes the major life forms that existed during each period of the Phanerozoic Eon, from the Cambrian Period to the Holocene Epoch. Key events include the extinction of dinosaurs, the rise of mammals and flowering plants, and the evolution of modern humans.

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Eon Era Period Epoch Life Forms

Holocene
Extinction of large mammals and birds
Quaternary Modern humans
Pleistocene

Age of Mammals
Pliocene Evolution of humans
Cenozoic

Neogene Spread of grassy ecosystems


Miocene
Tertiary

Oligocene Mammals diversify

Paleogene Eocene
Paleocene Early primates
Extinction of dinosaurs
First primates
Cretaceous
Age of Reptiles First flowering plants
First birds
Mesozoic

Jurassic
Dinosaurs diversify

First mammals
Phanerozoic

Triassic First dinosaurs


Flying reptiles
Age of Amphibians

Massive extinction
Permian
Reptiles diversify
First reptiles
Carboniferous

Pennsylvanian Coal forming swamps


Sharks abundant
Scale trees
Mississippian Seed ferns

First amphibians
Fishes
Paleozoic

Devonian Jawed fishes diversify


First forests (evergreen)
First vascular land plants
Silurian
Marine invertebrates

Primitive fish
Trilobite maximum
Ordovician
Multicellular living things diversify
Rise of corals
Early shelled organisms
Cambrian First fishes
First chordates
First skeletal elements
Proterozoic

First soft-bodied multicellular animals


Precambrian First animal traces

Simple multicellular organisms


Archean

Early bacteria and algae


(stromatolites)
Hadean

Origin of life

CHRISTINE JOY A. SULIB


STEM 12 – EINSTEIN
GENERAL BIOLOGY II

GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE

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