devonian period
tetrapods (land living) and orthopods (wingless insects and earliest arachnids) started roaming earth. brachiopods fluorished in the ocean
Carboniferous period
landmasses grew closer together to form pangaea, causing mountain ranges to form
jurrassic period
dinosaurs roamed the earth. mammals were more diversified around the earth too
cretaceous period
plates collided and caused more mountian ranges. higher volcanism caused pangaea to break apart. extinction of dinos
pleiosocene epoch
last ice age. caused a diversity of mammals on other continents
paleozoic era
creation of pangaea. biggest extinction ever
mesozoic era
pangaea separates into large continents. Dinosaurs roam
cenozoic era
rise of mammals after extinction of dinosaurs. humans rise and evolve too