LEAH LOREN BRAZIL
BIOLOGICAL
EVENTS TIMELINE
M.Y - “ Million Years Before Present “
1900 - 1700 MY , EARLY
EUKARYOTES
The oldest fossil evidence of eukaryotes,
cells measuring 10 pm or greater, is
about 2 billion years old.
600 - 543 MY , ABUNDANT
SOFT - BODIED ANIMALS
The time from 600-650 million years ago
to 543 million years ago, known as the
Vendian Period, saw the origin and first
diversification of soft-bodied organisms
known collectively as the “ Vendian
Fauna” or “ Ediacara Fauna “.
438 MY. EARLY LAND
PLANTS
The first land plants appeared arround
during the Ordovician period, when life
was diversifying rapidly. They were non-
vascular plants, like mosses and
liverworts, that didn’t have deep roots.
310 MY , FIRST REPTILES
Hylonomus Iyelli is the first recognized
reptile. It also the first species known to
have completely adapted to life on earth.
Hylonomus flourished in the Late
Carboniferous Period.
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3500 MY , FIRST BACTERIA
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue green
algae, started out on Earth quite a while
ago. Possible fossil examples have been
found in rocks that are around 3500
million years old.
1000 MY , TRACE ANIMAL
FOSSILS
A race fossils is a fossil record of
biological activitybut not the preserved
remains of the plant or animal itself. It
contrast with body fossils, which are the
fossilized remains of parts of organisms
bodies, usually altered by later chemical
activity or mineralization.
505 MY , FIRST FISH
It was during this time that the early
chordates developed the skull and the
vertebral column, leading to the first
craniates and vertebrates. The first fish
lineages belong to the Agnatha, or jawless
fish. Early examples include
Haikouichthys.
370 MY , FIRST AMPHIBIANS
Ichthyostega was one of the first primitive
amphibians, with nostrils and more
efficient lungs. It had four sturdy limbs, a
neck, a tail with fins and a skull very
similar to that of the lobe-finned fish,
Eusthenopteron.
251 MY , END PERMIAN
MASS EXTINCTION EVENT
End-Permian mass extinction, which
occured 251 .9 million years ago,
destroyed more than 96 percent of the
planet’s aquatic creatures and 70 percent
of its terrestrial life a planetary
annihilation that marked the end of the
Permian era.
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BIOLOGICAL
EVENTS TIMELINE
M.Y - “ Million Years Before Present “

245 MY , DINOSAURS
APPEAR
Dinosaurs lived between 245 and 66
million years ago, in a period known as
the Mesozoic Era. It was millions of years 225 MY , FIRST MAMMALS
before the first early humans, Homo
sapiens emerged. The first mammals appeared in the late
Triassic period (about 225 million years

200 MY , FIRST BIRDS

ago), 40 million years after the first
therapsids. The earliest known mammals
were the morganucodontids, tiny shrew-
Archaeopteryx is the first undisputed bird.
size creatures that lived in the shadows of
A week flyer, it shared traits with the
the dinosaurs.
descendants of the dinosaur. Fossils
reveal that Archaeopteryx, like dinosaurs,
had jaws, a long bony body, and claws on
its legs, but also hip and feather-like
birds.

66-65 MY , END
CRETACEUOUS MASS
EXTINCTION EVENT
The Cretaceous-Paleogen extinction event
was a rapid mass extinction of three-
quarters of plants and animals species on
Earth, around 66 million years ago. With
the exception of some ectothermic
animals, such as sea turtles and
crocodilians, no tetrapods weighing more
than 25 kilograms have survived.
140 MY , FLOWERING
PLANTS APPEAR
Flowering plants also known as
angiosperms. The oldest documented to
date is the 130 million-year old
Montsechia vidalli aquatic plant. It is
believed, however that flowering plants
first emerged much earlier than this ,
somewhere between 250 and 140 million
years ago.
37 MY , EARLY HORSES AND
OTHER FAMILIAR ANIMALS
The first members of the house family, the
dog-sized Hyracotherium, were
scampering through the forests that
covered North America. And about 20
million years ago , many new species
rapidly evolved.

2 MY , EARLIEST HUMANS
The first member of the genus Homo is
Homo habilis, which evolved
approximately 2.8 million years ago.
Homo habilis is the first species to provide
positive evidence of the use of stane tools.
0 MY , HUMANS DOMINANT
Humans (Homo sapiens) are group of
very intelligent primates. They are the last
surviving members of the Homomina
subtribe, and they are part of the
Hominidae family along with
chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
Distinguished by their upright stance and
bipedal locomotio; strong physical agility
and intense tools use compared toother
animals: bigger more structured brains
than most primates: and extremely
evolved and coordinated communitie.

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