EONS

GROUP III
PRECAMBRIAN
 The period that occurred 4.5 billion o 542 million years ago.
 Precambrian is the earliest of the geologic ages, which are
marked by different layers of sedimentary rock.
 The Precambrian accounts for 88% of the Earth’s geologic
time.
 Precambrian Era was named before Cambria the latinised
word for Wales where the first Rock in this age examined.
 The Precambrian (colored red in the timeline figure) is an
informal unit of geologic time, subdivided into three eons
(Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic) ohf the geologic time scale.
 The earliest living organism were microscopic bacteria, which
show up the fosil record as early as 3.4 billion ago.
The earliest multicelled animals that survived the Precambrian fall into
three main categories.

1. The soft Bodied Sponges- Lacking organs or a nervous system,

they lived by drawing water through their bodies and filtering out
food particies.
2. CNIDARIANS – which included sea anemones, corals, and
jellyfish, had sac-like bodies and a simple digestive system with a
outh but no anus. They caought food using tentacles armed with
microscopic stinging cells.
3. ANNELIDS- the annelids, or segmented flatworms, had fluid-
filled body cavities and breathed through their skins.
 It’s thought the final stages of Precambrian time were marked by a
prolonged global ice age. This may have led to widespread
extinctions, mirroring the bleak endings to the geologic periods
that followed.
NEOPROTEROZOIC
 The unit of geologic time from 1 billion to 541 million years ago.
 It is the last era of the Precambrian Supereon and the Proterozoic
eon.
 It is subdiveded into the Tonian, and Cryogenianand Ediacaran
Periods.
 Neoproterozoic is the period of Earth’s history that has produced
most continental crust.
Who live in this period?
 The earliest fossils of complex multicellular life.
MESOPROTEROZOIC
Mesoproterozoic was the first era of Earth’s
history for which a fairly definitive
geological record survives. Continents
existed during the preceding era (the
Paleoproterozoic), but little is known about
them. The continental masses of the
Mesoproterozoic were more or less the same
ones that exist today.
PALEOPROTEROZOIC
Relating to the oldest of three eras of the
Proterozoic eon from approximately 2.5 billion to
1.6 billion year ago.

The Paleoproterozoic is also the longest ear of the

Earth’s geological history.
PHANEROZOIC
The current geologic eon in the geologic time
sclae.
The one durin which abundant animal and plant
life has existed.
It began with the Cambrian Period when animals
first developed hard shells preseved in the fossil
record.
The Phanerozoic Eon includes the Paleozoic Era,
the Mesozoic Era, and the current Cenozoic Era.
CENOZOIC
Cenozoic Era , third of the major eras of Earth’s
history, beginning about 66 million years ago and
extending to the present. It was the interval of
time during which the continents assumed their
modern configuration and geographic positions
and during which Earth’s flora and fauna envolved
toward those of the present. The Cenozoic era is
also known as the Age of Mammals, allowing
smaller species to thrive and diversity because
their predators no longer existed.
MESOZOIC
Also called “middle life” od the Age of Reptiles ,
during this era life diversified rapidly and giant
reptiles, dinosaurs and other monstrous beast
roamed the earth.

This is the second-to-last ear Earth’s geological

history, which lasting from about 252 to 66 million
years ago and this is divided into 3 periods: The
Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.
PALEOZOIC
 Relating to or denoting the era between the
Precambrian eon and the Mesozoic era. “at the
end of the Paleozoic era the greatest extinction
event of all time took place” The Paleozoic Era is
the earliest of three geologic eras of the
Phanerozoic Eon. It is the longest of the
Phanerozoic eras, lasting from 541 to 251.902
million years ago, and is subdivided into six
geologic periods: the Cambrian, Ordovician,
Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian
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