BIOMES

QUATERNARY

Diverse environments including grasslands, savannas, and cold steppes, inhabited by megafauna mammals like mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and giant ground sloths.

Copaceni beds, Romania (Pleistocene)

NEOGENE (Coming eventualy)

The Neogene is characterized by the rise of mammals and grasses, as well as significant global cooling and the formation of the modern continents.

PALEOGENE (Coming eventualy)

The Paleogene is characterized by the diversification of mammals and the breakup of the supercontinent of Laurasia.

CRETACEOUS

One of the iconic age of dinosaurs, with towering conifers, cycads, and ferns forming vast forests and diverse dinosaur species

Hateg Island, Romania
(Maastrichtian)

JURASSIC (Coming eventualy)

The Jurassic is also characterized by the formation of Pangea, the supercontinent that began to break apart during this time.

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.

Bihor county, Romania

PERMIAN

JURASSIC (Coming eventualy)

Was a geological period known for its extreme climate and massive extinction event.

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.

Mazon Creek, North America
(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
Red Hill, USA
(Famennian)
North american shalow sea
(Famennian)
  • Frasnian
Spitsbergen, Svalbalrd
(Frasnian)
Miguasha, Canada
(Frasnian)
  • Givetian
Seven Stars, USA
(Givetian)
Gilboa, New York, USA (L.Giventian – E.Frasnian)
  • Eiflian
Lindlar, Germany
(M.Eifelian)
Goe, Belgium
(L.Eiphelian-E. Givetian)
  • Emsian
Hunsrück Slate, Germany
(Emsian)
  • Pragian
Rhynie chert, Scotland
(Pragian)
Yunan. China
(Pragian)
  • Lochkovian
Old Red Sandstone sea, UK
(Lochkovian)
Old Red Sandstone land, UK
(Lochkovian)

SILURIAN (Coming eventualy)

It is part of the Paleozoic Era and is known for the diversification of marine life, including the rise of jawed fish. The Silurian is also characterized by the formation of land plants and the appearance of terrestrial arthropods.

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.

Sirius Passet, Greenland

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.

Charnwood forest, UK
Flinders Ranges, Australia
Newfoundland, Canada
China
White sea, Russia
Namibia

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.