Geological Timeline

By ACoyne
  • Precambrian

    Precambrian
    4.56 billiion years ago
    Geological Event: The Earth forms
    Biological Event: First living Organisms
  • Paleozoic Era

    544-255 million years ago
  • Cambrian Period

    Cambrian Period
    505 million years ago
    Geological Event: Break up of supercontinent Rodinia
    Biological Event: Cambrian Explusion
  • Ordovician Period

    Ordovician Period
    505-440 million years ago
    Geological Event: Gongwana pushed south
    Biological Event: First laand plants
  • Silurian Period

    Silurian Period
    440-410 million years ago
    Geological Event: Gondwana centered on the South Pole
    Biological Event: First vascular plants
  • Devonian Period

    Devonian Period
    410-360 million years ago
    Geological Event: World was split into two big continents
    Biological Event: Amphibians evolved from fish
  • Carboniferous Period

    Carboniferous Period
    359-299 million years ago
    Geogical Event: Landmasses began to for Pangaea
    Biological Event: First reptiles
  • Permian Period

    Permian Period
    299-251 million years ago
    Geological Event: Pangaea drifting north led to a warming trend
    Biological Event: Mammal-like reptiles
  • Mesozoic Era

    251-65 million years ago
  • Triassic Period

    Triassic Period
    248-208 million years ago
    Geologic Events: Pangaea begins to split diring end of period
    Biologic Events: First Mammals
  • Jurassic Period

    Jurassic Period
    208-146 million years ago
    Geolologic Event: Pangaea continues to spread apart
    Biologic Event: Evolution of birds
  • Cretaceous Period

    Cretaceous Period
    146-65 million years ago
    Geologic Event: Pangaea continued moving apart
    Biologic Event: Flowering plants evolved
  • Cenozoic Era

    65 million years ago- now
  • Teritiary Period

    Teritiary Period
    65-1.8 million years ago
    Geological Event: Pangaea became seperate continents
    Biological Event: Evolution of mammals and grass
  • Quaternary Period

    Quaternary Period
    1.8 million years ago- now
    Geological Event: Series of ice ages in begining of period
    Biological Event: Homo sapiens