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Neoproterozoic
Early Cambrian
Middle Cambrian
Late Cambrian
Middle Ordovician
Rugose and tabulate
Tetracorals
Scleractinids
Archaeocyathids and sponges
Pentacorals
The seed, which results from mutation, is released as a durable structure that can sprout into a plant when conditions become favorable.
The seed, which results from fertilization, is released as a delicate structure that can sprout into a plant when conditions become favorable.
The seed, which results from fertilization, is released as a durable structure that can sprout into a plant when conditions become favorable.
The spore, which results from fertilization, is released as a durable structure that can sprout into a plant when conditions become favorable.
Mollusk
Brachiopod
Foraminifera
Bryozoan
Trilobite
Burrowing bivalves temporarily displaced corals as the primary builders of organic reefs in the mid-Cretaceous.
Rudist corals temporarily displaced corals as the primary builders of organic reefs in the mid-Cretaceous.
Rudist bivalves temporarily displaced corals as the primary builders of organic reefs in the mid-Cretaceous.
Rudist sponges temporarily displaced corals as the primary builders of organic reefs in the mid-Cretaceous.
Tetrapods
Amniotes
Therapsids
Small shelly faunas
Burgess Shake fauna
Rugose
Tetracorals
Scleractinids
Archaeocyathids and sponges
Pentacorals
Epifaunal animals
Infaunal animals
Tetrapods
Fusulinids
Protistans
Cloudina
Aldanella
Anomalocaris
Opabinia
Hallucigenia
Trilobites
Eurypterids
Nautiloids
Goniatites
Ostracodes
Resources increased due to proliferation of plant life
Transgression provide new, available environments
Regression provide new, available environments
Predation increased therefore prey evolved and diversified
An increase of volcanism along divergent plate boundaries
Pikaia
Opabinia
Cathymyrus
Marrella
Cloudina
Reveals extraordinary evolutionary complexity and diversity
Reveals an unimaginable, anachronistic fauna
Documents the sequence of a turbidite flow
Records a remarkable oxygen isotope record indicating cool ocean temperatures
Records the first transgressive/regression cratonic sequence in the Phanerozoic
Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian
Carboniferous
251 to 65
200 to 145
145 to 65
251 to 200
200 to 145
251
150
145
65
200
Cenozoic
Triassic
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Archean
Jurassic-Cretaceous
Triassic-Jurassic
Permian-Triassic
Paleozoic
Archean
Orogenic activity shifted eastward from its Jurassic position, so that to the east of the orogenic belt an interior seaway stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean.
Orogenic activity shifted westward from its Jurassic position, so that to the west of the orogenic belt an interior seaway stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean.
Orogenic activity shifted eastward from its Triassic position, so that to the east of the orogenic belt an interior seaway stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.
Orogenic activity shifted eastward from its Jurassic position, so that to the east of the orogenic belt an interior seaway stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean Ocean.
Newark Group
Ripley Formation
Franciscan Formation
Shinarump Conglomerate
Carmel Formation
Servier
Nevadan
Sonoma
Tethys
Navajo
Marine sediments mark zones where Pangea began to rift apart early in the Mesozoic Era.
Basalts mark zones where Pangea began to rift apart early in the Mesozoic Era.
Evaporites mark zones where Pangea began to rift apart early in the Mesozoic Era.
Igneous intrusions mark zones where Pangea began to rift apart early in the Mesozoic Era.
Thrust fault
Melange
Decollement
Ophiolite
Batholith
Chinle Formation
Sundance Formation
Navajo Sandstone
Morrison Formation
Shinarump Conglomerate
Tethys
Gulf of Mexico
South Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Sundance Sea
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