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GEOLOGIC HISTORYEonMillion years ago050010002000300040004600PHANERO-ZOICPRECAMBRIANARCHEAN PROTEROZOICLATEMIDDLEEARLYMIDDLELATEEARLYFirstsexuallyreproducingorganismsEraOceanic oxygenbegins to enterthe atmosphereOceanic oxygenproduced bycyanobacteriacombines withiron, formingiron oxide layerson ocean floorEarliest stromatolitesOldest microfossilsEvidence of biologicalcarbonOldest known rocksEstimated time of originof Earth and solar systemCENOZOICMESOZOICPALEOZOICQUATERNARYNEOGENEPALEOGENECRETACEOUSJURASSICTRIASSICPERMIANCARBONIF-EROUSPeriod Epoch Life on EarthPENNSYLVANIANMISSISSIPPIANDEVONIANSILURIANORDOVICIANCAMBRIANPLEISTOCENEPLIOCENELATEEARLYLATEMIDDLEEARLYLATEMIDDLEEARLYLATEMIDDLEEARLYLATEEARLYLATEMIDDLEEARLYLATEMIDDLEEARLYLATEEARLYLATEMIDDLEEARLYLATEMIDDLEEARLYMillion years agoHOLOCENE1.85.3MIOCENE23.0OLIGOCENE33.9EOCENE55.8PALEOCENE65.514620025129931835941644448854258000.01Humans, mastodonts, mammothsLarge carnivorous mammalsAbundant grazing mammalsEarliest grassesMany modern groups of mammalsMass extinction of dinosaurs, ammonoids, andmany land plantsEarliest flowering plantsDiverse bony fishesEarliest birdsAbundant dinosaurs and ammonoidsEarliest mammalsEarliest dinosaursMass extinction of many land and marineorganisms (including trilobites)Mammal-like reptilesAbundant reptilesExtensive coal-forming forestsAbundant amphibiansLarge and numerous scale trees and seed ferns(vascular plants); earliest reptilesEarliest amphibians and plant seedsExtinction of many marine organismsEarth’s first forestsEarliest ammonoids and sharksAbundant fishEarliest insectsEarliest land plants and animalsAbundant eurypteridsInvertebrates dominantEarth’s first coral reefsBurgess shale fauna (diverse soft-bodied organisms)Earliest fishesExtinction of many primitive marine organismsEarliest trilobitesGreat diversity of life-forms with shelly partsEdiacaran fauna (first multicellular, soft-bodiedmarine organisms)NY RockRecordSedimentBedrock(Index fossils not drawn to scale)1300Abundant stromatolitesABC D E F G H I J K L M NCryptolithus Valcouroceras Centroceras Eucalyptocrinus TetragraptusElliptocephala Phacops Hexameroceras Manticoceras CtenocrinusDicellograptusCoelophysis StylonurusEurypterus8 Physical Setting/Earth Science Reference Tables — 2010 Edition
OF NEW YORK STATETime Distribution of Fossils(including important fossils of New York)The center of each lettered circle indicates the approximate time ofexistence of a specific index fossil (e.g. Fossil A lived at the endof the Early Cambrian).O SImportant GeologicEvents in New YorkAdvance and retreat of last continental iceInferred Positions ofEarth’s LandmassesNAUTILOIDSDINOSAURSMAMMALSBIRDSSands and clays underlying Long Island andStaten Island deposited on margin of AtlanticOceanDome-like uplift of Adirondack region begins59 million years agoTRILOBITESCFEAMMONOIDSGCRINOIDSIHLGRAPTOLITESEURYPTERIDSNMVASCULAR PLANTSQPPLACODERM FISHRCORALSVUGASTROPODSXBRACHIOPODSZYInitial opening of Atlantic OceanNorth America and Africa separateIntrusion of Palisades sillPangaea begins to break upAlleghenian orogeny caused bycollision of North America andAfrica along transform margin,forming PangaeaCatskill delta formsErosion of Acadian MountainsAcadian orogeny caused by collision ofNorth America and Avalon and closingof remaining part of Iapetus OceanSalt and gypsum deposited in evaporite basins119 million years ago232 million years ago359 million years agoBDKJTWErosion of Taconic Mountains; Queenston deltaformsTaconian orogeny caused by closingof western part of Iapetus Ocean andcollision between North America andvolcanic island arcAWidespread deposition over most of New Yorkalong edge of Iapetus Ocean458 million years agoRifting and initial opening of Iapetus OceanErosion of Grenville MountainsGrenville orogeny: metamorphism ofbedrock now exposed in the Adirondacksand Hudson HighlandsOPQ R S T U V W X Y ZMastodontBeluga WhaleCooksonia Naples TreeBothriolepisAneurophytonCondor Cystiphyllum Maclurites EospiriferLichenaria Pleurodictyum Platyceras MucrospiriferESC/BW/TN (2009)Physical Setting/Earth Science Reference Tables — 2010 Edition 9
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