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Paleozoic History Timeline

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1. First toothed fish and nautiloids.






2. End of Carboniferous and beginning of Permian Period. By this time - all continents have fused into the supercontinent of Pangaea. Beetles evolve. Seed plants and conifers diversify along with temnospondyls and pelycosaurs.






3. Plants and arthropods colonize the land. Sharks evolve.






4. The evolution of the first reptiles.






5. First agnathan fish.






6. Beginning of the Silurian and the end of the Ordovician period.






7. End of Carboniferous and beginning of Permian Period. By this time - all continents have fused into the supercontinent of Pangaea. Beetles evolve. Seed plants and conifers diversify along with temnospondyls and pelycosaurs.






8. First graptolites.






9. Beginning of the Silurian and the end of the Ordovician period.






10. First cephalopods and chitons.






11. Beginning of the Cambrian period - the Paleozoic Era and the Phanerozoic (current) Eon. End of the Ediacaran Period - the Proterozoic Eon and the Precambrian Supereon. Time since the Cambrian explosion the emergence of most forms of complex life - in






12. First amniotes evolve.






13. First jawless fishes.






14. Beginning of the Cambrian period - the Paleozoic Era and the Phanerozoic (current) Eon. End of the Ediacaran Period - the Proterozoic Eon and the Precambrian Supereon. Time since the Cambrian explosion the emergence of most forms of complex life - in






15. Possible early land animals.






16. Beginning of the Ordovician and the end of the Cambrian period.






17. First therapsids evolve.






18. The evolution of the first reptiles.






19. First jawless fishes.






20. Fossilization of the Burgess Shale.






21. Permian mass extinction. End of Permian Period and of the Palaeozoic Era. Beginning of Triassic Period - the Mesozoic era and of the age of the dinosaurs.






22. First cephalopods and chitons.






23. First diapsids evolve.






24. Plants and arthropods colonize the land. Sharks evolve.






25. First synapsids evolve.






26. First creature took a breath of air.First ray-finned fish and land scorpions.






27. Beginning of the Ordovician and the end of the Cambrian period.






28. Beginning of the Carboniferous and the end of Devonian period. Amphibians diversify.






29. Possible early land animals.






30. Beginning of the Devonian and end of the Silurian period.First insects.






31. Fossilization of the Burgess Shale.






32. First large sharks - ratfish and hagfish.






33. First synapsids evolve.






34. First therapsids evolve.






35. First of many modern groups - including tetrapods.






36. First creature took a breath of air.First ray-finned fish and land scorpions.






37. First agnathan fish.






38. Beginning of the Carboniferous and the end of Devonian period. Amphibians diversify.






39. First amniotes evolve.






40. First crabs and ferns.






41. Beginning of the Devonian and end of the Silurian period.First insects.






42. Permian mass extinction. End of Permian Period and of the Palaeozoic Era. Beginning of Triassic Period - the Mesozoic era and of the age of the dinosaurs.






43. First of many modern groups - including tetrapods.






44. First large sharks - ratfish and hagfish.






45. First crabs and ferns.






46. First diapsids evolve.






47. First graptolites.






48. First toothed fish and nautiloids.