CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



GEOLOGICAL TIME TABLE 

 (The older areas, periods, etc., are at the bottom; the later are at the top) 



Cenozoic era 

 Modern life: 

 mammals and 

 flowering plants 

 (3 to 5 million 

 years ) 



Mesozoic era 

 Middle life: 

 reptiles, cycads, 

 and conifers 

 (5 to 10 million 

 years) 



Palaeozoic era 

 Early life: 

 fishes and 

 flowerless plants 

 (20 to 25 mil- 

 lion years) 



Proterozoic era 

 (25 million 

 years ) 



Archaeozoic era 

 (50 million 

 years) 



Quarternary 

 period 



Tertiary 

 period 



Cretaceous 

 period 



Jurassic 

 period 



Triassic 

 period 



Carboniferous 

 period 



Devonian 

 period 



Silurian 

 period 



Ordovician 

 period 



Cambrian 

 period 



Pleistocene 

 epoch 



Time of the Ice Age and 

 of the ancestors of man. 

 Extinction of many large 

 animals and trees. Evolu- 

 tion of herbs. Elevation 

 and extension of con- 

 tinents. 



Pliocene 

 epoch 



Miocene 

 epoch 



Oligocene 

 epoch 



Eocene 

 epoch 



Cosmopolitan forests. 



Zenith of development of 

 forests. 



Culmination 

 types. 



of Eocene 



Modernization 

 ing plants. 



of flower- 



Earliest palms. Beginnings of forests of 

 the ancestors of the flowering plants 

 mixed with survivors of the older Meso- 

 zoic ferns, cycads, and conifers. 



Widespread warm seas, marine mammals 

 and terrestrial cycads and conifers. 

 Toothed reptile-birds. 



Land extension and shallow seas and 

 lagoons. Red deposits. First mammals. 



Permian 

 epoch 



Dwindling of ancient 

 forms; rise of cycads. 



Swamps of the coal age. Ferns and seed 

 ferns, giant club mosses, and horsetail 

 rushes. Rise of primitive reptiles. 



First abundant fossil land plants. First 

 amphibians. 



Rise of land plants, lung fishes, and scor- 

 pions. 



Rise of shelled animals. 



First abundant fossils. Marine plants. 

 Dominance of trilobites. 



Cellular plants and primitive, mostly soft bodied marine 

 animals. 



The first life. 



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