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Era & Epoch, age
(Mya), time Species
Period span (in Mya)
Epoch Holocene
Cenozoic
(recent life; age of mammals) Age/Mya 0.01
Quaternary Time --------
Span
Mammoth
Epoch Pleistocene
Cenozoic
(recent life; age of mammals) Age/Mya
Quaternary 1.8
[Link]
Time
Span 1.79
Tertiary[Link]
Epoch
Cenozoic Pliocene
(recent life; age of mammals) Large carnivores (bears, dogs,
cats) appear
Tertiary
Age/Mya 5.3
Time 3.5
Span
Miocene Hornless Rhine horn
Epoch
Cenozoic (grass
(recent life; age of mammals) abundant)
Tertiary Age/Mya 2.3
[Link]
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Time 17.7
Span
Oligocene Mesohippus
Cenozoic Epoch
(recent life; age of mammals) Age/Mya 33.9
Tertiary
[Link]
Time 10.9
Span
Eocene Mystacodon selenensis
Epoch (primitive horse,
Cenozoic bats and whales)
(recent life; age of mammals)
Tertiary
Age/Mya 55.8 [Link]
Time
Span 29.9
Cenozoic Colugos
(recent life; age of mammals)
Epoch Paleocene
Tertiary (first primate,
lemuroids appear)
Age/Mya 65.5
Time 9.7 [Link]
Span
Epoch First mammals;
extinction of
Cretaceous dinosaurs, first
Mesozoic flowering plant
(middle life; age of dinosaurs)
Age/Mya 145
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Time
Span 7.5
Epoch flying reptiles
Pt
erosaur
and first birds
Jurassic appear.
Mesozoic
(middle life; age of dinosaurs)
Age/Mya 200
Time
Span 55
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Epoch Dinosaur first CoelophysisPt
erosaur
appears
Triassic
Mesozoic
(middle life; age of dinosaurs) Age/Mya 251
Time 51
Span [Link]
synapsid Lystrosaurus
Permian Epoch Pangaea comes
together Mass
Paleozoic (ancient life)
extinction
Age/Mya 299
Time 48
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Span
Ancient Dragonfly
Large nonflowering
Epoch plants/ dragonflies’
Pennsylvanian appearance
Paleozoic (ancient life)
Age/Mya 318
Time 19
Span [Link]
Large amount Evactinopora radiata
amphibians,
Mississippian Epoch extensive first,
Paleozoic (ancient life) sharks abundant,
and sea stars
common in ocean
Age/Mya 359
[Link]
Time 57
Span
Epoch First Giant Placoderm and Primitive Sharks
amphibians and
fishes
Devonian
Paleozoic (ancient life) Age/Mya 416
Time
Span 28
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Echinoderms Eurypterus
Epoch appear;
Silurian eurypterids
Paleozoic (ancient life) abundant, First
land plants
Age/Mya 444
Time
Span 28 [Link]
Orthocones
Ordovician First
Epoch vertebrate-fish
Paleozoic (ancient life) [Link]
Age/Mya 488
Time
Span 44
Ophabinia
Marine-shelled
Cambrian Epoch
Paleozoic (ancient life) invertebrate
Age/Mya 542
Time 52
Span
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Epoch ----------
Proterozoic
(early life) Age/Mya 2500
(fossil remain of bacteria and
blue-green algae) Time 1958
Span
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Epoch ---------- [Link]
Archean_Eon_/archean_eon_.html
Archean
(Oldest fossils-apex chert and
Age/Mya 3800
stromatolites)
Time 1300
Span
Epoch ----------
Hadean
(beginning of the earth) Age/Mya 4600
Time 800
Span
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