PHANEROZOIC Permian:

PRECAMBRIAN Major extinction, reptiles diversify

Cenozoic Carboniferous:
Mesozoic First reptiles
Paleozoic Trees and seeds ferns

Cenozoic Devonian:
Mesozoic First amphibians
Paleozoic First diversity

Proterozoic: Silurian: First vascular plants

Life begins in sea
Ordovician:
Archean: Major diversification of animal life
Oldest rocks,
Earth crust forms Cambrian:
First fish,
Hadean: First chordates (animals with
Earth forms backbone)

Tertiary:
Mammals diversify
Quaternary:
Human evolution

Cretaceous:
Extinction of Dinosaurs,
First Primates,
First flowering seeds

Jurassic:
First birds,
Dinosaurs diversify

Triassic:
First mammals, First dinosaurs