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Evolutionary Events (light blue):

• First evidence of life (3,850 Ma)

• Photosynthesizing bacteria (3,700 Ma)

• Oldest fossils (3,500 Ma)

• First eukaryotes (2,700 Ma)

• Ediacaran fauna (600 Ma)

• The Cambrian explosion (530 Ma)

• First land plants and fish (480 Ma)

• Arthropods on land (420 Ma)

• First insects (407 Ma)

• First amphibians land vertebrates (375 Ma)

• First seed plants (360 Ma)

• First reptiles (350 Ma)

• First dinosaurs (220 Ma)

• Early mammals (220 Ma)

• First birds (150 Ma)

• First flowering plants (130 Ma)

• Early primates (60 Ma)

• First hominids (5.2 Ma)

• Modern humans (0.2 Ma)

Extinctions (red):

• Vendian - some single celled algae and soft-bodied animals went extinct (543 Ma)

• Cambrian - some reef builders and other shallow water organisms become extinct (520 Ma)

• End Ordovician - 25% of marine vertebrates families and 57% of genera become extinct (443 Ma)

• Devonian - 50-55% of marine invertebrate genera and 70-80% of species went extinct (364 Ma)

• Permian - greatest extinction event; 90% of all species became extinct (250 Ma)

• End Cretaceous - extinction of the dinosaurs; 60-80% of all species became extinct (65 Ma)

• Late Triassic - ~50% marine invertebrate genera, possibly land vertebrate went extinct (206 Ma)

Late Eocene - 50-90% of species in certain land and marine group went extinct (33 mya)

• Miocene - many woodland plant-eating herbivores went extinct (9 Ma)

• Late Pleistocene - nearly all large mammals and birds (>45 pounds) became extinct (.01 Ma)

Geologic events (orange):


• Formation of the great oceans (4,200 Ma)

• Continents begin shifting (3,100 Ma)

• Oxygen levels reach 3% of the atmosphere (1.9 Ma)

• Supercontinent Rodinia forms (1100 Ma)

• Protective ozone in place (600 Ma)

• Gondwana forms (500 Ma)

• Oxygen nears present day concentration (400 Ma)

• Formation of the Pangaea supercontinent (280 Ma)

• Pangaea supercontinent breaks up (200 Ma)

• Continents near present-day positions (40 Ma)

• Initiation of seafloor spreading of South China Sea (32 Ma)

• Initiation of the Philippine fault (4 Ma)

• Global ice ages begin (2 Ma)

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