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Geologic time scale, 650 million years ago to the present

era period events

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Quaternary evolution of humans
26
Neogene
mammals diversify
50 Paleogene
extinction of dinosaurs

100 cretaceous first primates

first flowering plants

150H first birds
Jurassic
dinosaurs diversity
200
first mammals
Triassic
first dinosaurs
250
major extinctions
Permian
reptiles diversity
300 first reptiles
Pennsytvanian scale trees
seed ferns
Mississipplan
350
first amphibians
Devonian jawed fishes diversity
400

Silurian first vascular land plants

450
sudden diversification
Ordovician of metazoan families

500 first fishes

Cambrian
first chordates

550 first skeletal elements

first soft-bodied metazoans
first animal traces

600

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