GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
|
ERA |
PERIOD |
EPOCH |
AGE OF TIME BOUNDARY |
|
Cenozoic |
Quaternary . Tertiary |
Recent Pleistocene Pliocene Miocene Oligocene Eocene Paleocene |
Today 1 13 25 36 48 65 |
|
Mesozoic |
Cretaceous Jurassic Triassic |
135 181 230 |
|
|
Paleozoic
|
Permian Pennsylvanian Mississippian Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian |
280 325 345 395 430 500 570 |
|
|
(Precambrian) |
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Proterozoic |
(Eucaryotic Cells, Multicellularity & Sexual Reproduction) |
±2,000 |
|
|
Archeozoic |
(Procaryotic Cells, Photosynthesis) |
±3,600 |
|