QUATERNARY
- Holocene
The Gumelniţa culture was a Chalcolithic culture of the 5th millennium BC (c. 4700–4000 BC)
- Pleistocene
Diverse environments including grasslands, savannas, and cold steppes, inhabited by megafauna mammals like mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and giant ground sloths.
NEOGENE (In development)
PALEOGENE (In development)
CRETACEOUS
One of the iconic age of dinosaurs, with towering conifers, cycads, and ferns forming vast forests and diverse dinosaur species
(Maastrichtian)
JURASSIC (In development)
TRIASSIC
The Triassic period (251.9-201.3 million years ago) was a time of recovery and diversification after the Permian-Triassic extinction event. It was characterized by a warm, dry climate and the rise of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles.
PERMIAN (In development)
CARBONIFEROUS
Lush swamp forests dominated by giant lycopsids (primitive trees) and ferns, teeming with diverse insect life like the giant dragonfly, meganeura, and early amphibians.
(Moscovian)
DEVONIAN
The Devonian is often referred to as the “Age of Fishes” due to the diversification of jawed and jawless fish species. However, the period also saw the rise of the first land plants, primitive insects, and the early tetrapods – ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and eventually mammals.
- Famennian
- Frasnian
- Givetian
- Eiflian
- Emsian
- Pragian
- Lochkovian
SILURIAN (In development)
ORDOVICIAN
The first land plants appeared.
CAMBRIAN
This period is famous for the Cambrian Explosion, a relatively short period where most of the major animal body plans we see today first appeared in the fossil record.
EDIACARAN
The Ediacaran biota is unlike anything seen today. It’s dominated by soft-bodied organisms with strange and diverse shapes, often classified as the Ediacaran fauna. While the origins and relationships of these creatures are debated, they represent some of the earliest complex life forms on Earth.
PALEOPROTEROZOIC
The Paleoproterozoic was a geological era that lasted from about 2500 to 1600 million years ago. It is part of the Proterozoic Eon and is characterized by the rise of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere and the formation of the first continents. The Paleoproterozoic is also the time when the first complex multicellular organisms appeared.
ARCHEAN
The Archean was a geological eon that lasted from about 4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago. It is the oldest of the four geological eons, and it is characterized by the formation of the Earth’s crust and the appearance of the first life forms. The Archean is also the time when the Earth’s atmosphere became more oxygen-rich.
