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Early Bombardment Phase
Oldest zircon minerals found
Possible first appearance of plate tectonics |
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Stabilization of modern cratons
First stromatolites
Simple single-celled life |
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Stabilization of first continents |
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Formation of supercontinent Rodinia
Grenville Orogeny |
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Heavy glaciation results in possible "Snowball Earth"
Earliest fossils of multicellular lifeforms |
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Paleoproterozoic era
Mesoproterozoic era
Neoproterozoic era |
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Gondwana supercontinent formation
Major diversification of life
Trilobites |
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Invertebrate diversity
Early corals
Conodonts
First Mass Extinction Event
(heavy ice age ~445Ma) |
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First vascular plants
Bony fish appear |
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The Age of Fishes
First ferns and seed-bearing plants appear
Acadian Orogeny
(initial Appalachia Mtn. event)
Mass Extinction Event |
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Large primitive trees appear
First land vertebrates
Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse (cooling climate) |
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Notable events:
Large primitive trees
Land vertebrates
North American sea-level rise (transgression) |
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Amphibians common
First reptiles
Alleghanian Orogeny (Appalachia Mtns.)
Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse (cooling climate) |
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Formation of Pangaea
Continued Appalachian Mtn. formation
Extensive mass extinction - Siberian Traps (95% all life dies) |
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Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
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First appearance of dinosaurs
Breakup of Pangaea drives mass extinction event |
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"Golden Age" of dinosaurs :)
Beginning of Gondwana supercontinent breakup
Extinction of conodont |
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Dinosaur evolution
Completion of Gondwana breakup
Laramide & Sevier Orogenies begin
K-T impact mass extinction event |
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Age of Reptiles and Dinosaurs
Evolution of conifer trees
Breakup of Pangaea |
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Paleocene epoch
Eocene epoch
Oligocene epoch
Miocene epoch
Pliocene epoch |
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Pleistocene epoch
Holocene epoch |
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Rise of mammals
General climate cooling leads to rise in conifer forests |
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Rise of human species
Major glaciation event
GameStop stock surge |
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