Periods and Epochs of the Phanerozoic
"Pushed one against the other by the growth of their number and by the proliferation of their connections, approached one to the other by the reawakening of a common force and by the feeling of a common anxiety, the future human kind will form nothing but a unified consciousness".  > Teilhard De Chardin  scientist, Jesuit Priest,  mystic, prankster ,





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Genesis 1:vs 28. "And God blessed them (male and female) and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over everything that moveth upon the earth"
Cenozoic (recent) 
Period MYBP Epochs MYBP
Quaternary 1.6
Holocene 10,000 Y
Pleistocene 1.6
Neogene 23
mammals angiosperms
dominate
Pliocene 5
Miocene 23
Paleogene 66
Dinos extinct
Oligocene 35
Eocene 56
Paleocene

66
Mesozoic
(middle)
Cretaceous 245 Angiosperms  evolve
Rocky Mts.
Jurassic 208 Dinos dominate
 1st birds evolve
Triassic 245

 		 Pangea breaks up
1st mammals evolve
Atlantic forms
Paleozoic (ancient)
Permian 290  
Pennsylvanian

323 Reptiles form
coal swamps giant insects
Mississippian 362 Amphibians dominate
glacial advances occur
Devonian 408 Fish Dominate
Amphibians evolve
Silurian 439 land plants evolve
insects evolve
Ordovician   First fish appear
(jawless)
510
Cambrian 540 Trilobites/ brachiopods/
marine invertebrates/ sediments are deposited in seas