Million years ago   
Dates
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Proportional Earth and Life History Timeline
Earth
Formation
of the earth
Formation
of the moon
Moon
Zircon
Oldest known
mineral
  
  HADEAN
  PRECAMBRIAN
Events   
Era   
Eon   
Super eon   
Anomalocaris
Marrella
Apple
First
apples
Eotragus
First
bovids
Miacid
Cat and dog
ancestors
diverge
Ambulocetus
Whales return to the sea
Hyracotherium
First
horses
Modern
sharks
Shark
Cladoselache
Early sharks
Sordes
Flying
reptiles
Attenborosaurus
Large
aquatic
reptiles
Human
Homo
sapiens
Chimpanzee
Chimpanzees
and humans
diverge
Tyrannosaurus rex
T. Rex appears
and goes
extinct
Odontochelys
First
turtles
Plesiadapis
First
primates
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Sinodelphys
Eomaia
First marsupial and placental mammals
Megazostrodon
First
mammals
Dimetrodon
Mammalian
reptiles
Archaeopteryx
Bird ancestors
Apatosaurus
The reign of the dinosaurs
Herrerasaurus
First dinosaurs
Hylonomus
First reptiles
First eggs
Egg
Archaefructus
First flowers
First
seeds
Seed
Acanthostega
Early amphibians
with limbs
Meganeura
First flying insects
First insects
Arthropod
First leaves
Baragwanathia
Archaeopteris
First trees
Materpiscis
First spores indicate
early terrestrial plants
Spore
The mother-fish;
first viviparous vertebrate
Dipterus
Placoderms
Haikouichthys
Sacabambaspis
Acanthodians
Jawed fish
Jawless fish
Early fish are first vertebrates
                                                     Mass extinctions                                                                                                          Mass extinctions                                                                                                                              Mass extinctions
Dickinsonia
The Ediacaran fauna;
complex multi-cellular
soft aquatic animals
Bangiomorpha
First multi-cellular organisms;
red algae?
  NEOPROTEROZOIC
  MESOPROTEROZOIC
  PALEOPROTEROZOIC
  NEOARCHEAN
  MESOARCHEAN
  PALEOARCHEAN
  EOARCHEAN
Opabinia
Explosion of  lifeforms;
solid and mobile aquatic
animals with eyes
Microfossil
Filamentous photosynthetic
bacteria microfossils
Oxygen
Great oxygenation event
caused by cyanobacteria
Snowball earth
Snowball earth
Snowball earth
Snowball earth
Rodinia
Eukaryote
cells appear
Eukaryote cell
Pannotia
Pangea
Fragmentation of supercontinent Pangea
Formation of
supercontinent
Pangea
Fragmentation of supercontinent Pannotia
Formation of
supercontinent Pannotia
Fragmentation of
supercontinent Rodinia
Formation of
supercontinent
Rodinia
Fragmentation of
supercontinent
Columbia
Formation of
supercontinent
Columbia
Fragmentation of supercontinent Kernorland
Formation of
supercontinent
Kernorland
Late heavy meteorite bombardment
Meteorite
Meteorite
Fragmentation of
supercontinent
Vaalbara
Formation of
supercontinent
Vaalbara
Stromatolites of
bacterial origin
Stromatolites
● All dates are approximate
● Based on recent scientific knowledge and theories
Q
NEOGENE
       PALEOGENE
                CRETACEOUS
           JURASSIC
         TRIASSIC
        PERMIAN
    CARBONIFEROUS
          DEVONIAN
SILURIAN
    ORDOVICIAN
        CAMBRIAN
Period   
Era   
  CENOZOIC
  MESOZOIC
  PALEOZOIC
  PROTEROZOIC
  ARCHEAN
Eon   
  PHANEROZOIC