GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE PERIODS

PERMIAN
ERAS 290 million years
ago

CENOZOIC
PRE-CAMBRIAN CARBONIFEROUS
Bacteria Reptiles
4.5-0.5 billion years ago 360 million years ago
EONS DEVONIAN
Amphibians, fish
410 million years
PHANEROZOIC MESOZOIC ago

SILURIAN
Corals
435 million years
ago

ORDOVICIAN
Algae, Fungi
PALEOZOIC 500 million years
ago

CAMBRIAN
570 million years
ago
 GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
ERAS HOLOCENE
Modern Man
QUATERMARY 10000 years ago
CENOZOIC
TERTIARY PLEISTOCENE
Homo Sapiens
2 million years ago
CRETACIOUS
Extinction of PLIOCENE
Dinosaurs 138 Early humans, 5 mil.
MESOZOIC million years ago EPOCH
MIOCENE
Flowering plants, 24
JURASSIC mil.
Dinosaurs
205 million years
OBLIGOCENE
ago
Cats dogs, 38 mil.
AGES

PALEOZOIC TRIASSIC
Frogs & Turtles EOCENE
240 million years Rabbits, 55 mil.
ago
PALEOCENE
PERIODS Small mammals, 63
mil.