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CREATION BY EVOLUTION
GEOLOGICAL TIME TABLE
(The older areas, periods, etc., are at the bottom; the later are at the top)
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Cenozoic era Modern life: mammals and flowering plants (3 to 5 million years) |
Quarternary period | Pleistocene epoch |
Time of the Ice Age and of the ancestors of man. Extinction of many large animals and trees. Evolution of herbs. Elevation and extension of continents. |
| Tertiary period | Pliocene epoch | Cosmopolitan forests. | |
| Miocene epoch | Zenith of development of forests. | ||
| Oligocene epoch | Culmination of Eocene types. | ||
| Eocene epoch | Modernization of flowering plants. | ||
| Mesozoic era
Middle life: reptiles, cycads, and conifers (5 to 10 million years) |
Cretaceous period | Earliest palms. Beginnings of forests of the ancestors of the flowering plants mixed with survivors of the older Mesozoic ferns, cycads, and conifers. | |
| Jurassic period | Widespread warm seas, marine mammals and terrestrial cycads and conifers. Toothed reptile-birds. | ||
| Triassic period | Land extension and shallow seas and lagoons. Red deposits. First mammals. | ||
| Palaeozoic era
Early life: fishes and flowerless plants (20 to 25 million years) |
Carboniferous period | Permian epoch | Dwindling of ancient forms; rise of cycads. |
| Swamps of the coal age. Ferns and seed ferns, giant club mosses, and horsetail rushes. Rise of primitive reptiles. | |||
| Devonian period | First abundant fossil land plants. First amphibians. | ||
| Silurian period | Rise of land plants, lung fishes, and scorpions. | ||
| Ordovician period | Rise of shelled animals. | ||
| Cambrian period | First abundant fossils. Marine plants. Dominance of trilobites. | ||
| Proterozoic era
(25 million years) |
Cellular plants and primitive, mostly soft bodied marine animals. | ||
| Archaeozoic era
(50 million years) |
The first life. | ||
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