Difference between revisions of "Template:Geologic time scale"

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|rowspan="8" style="background:{{period color|Neogene}}"| [[Neogene]]
 
|rowspan="8" style="background:{{period color|Neogene}}"| [[Neogene]]
 
|rowspan="2" style="background:{{period color|Pliocene}}"| [[Pliocene]]
 
|rowspan="2" style="background:{{period color|Pliocene}}"| [[Pliocene]]
|rowspan="1" style="background:rgb(254,250,200)"| [[Piacenzian]]/[[Blancan]]
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|rowspan="1" style="background:{{period color|Piacenzian}}"| [[Piacenzian]]/[[Blancan]]
 
|rowspan="2"| Intensification of present [[Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth|Icehouse conditions]], [[Quaternary glaciation|present (Quaternary) ice age]] begins roughly 2.58 Ma;  cool and dry [[climate]]. [[Australopithecine]]s, many of the existing genera of mammals, and recent [[mollusk]]s appear. ''[[Homo habilis]]'' appears.
 
|rowspan="2"| Intensification of present [[Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth|Icehouse conditions]], [[Quaternary glaciation|present (Quaternary) ice age]] begins roughly 2.58 Ma;  cool and dry [[climate]]. [[Australopithecine]]s, many of the existing genera of mammals, and recent [[mollusk]]s appear. ''[[Homo habilis]]'' appears.
|style="background:rgb(254,250,200)"| 3.600<sup>*</sup>
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|style="background:{{period color|Piacenzian}}"| 3.600<sup>*</sup>
 
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|style="background:{{period color|Zanclean}}"| [[Zanclean]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Zanclean}}"| [[Zanclean]]
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|rowspan="12" style="background:{{period color|Cretaceous}}" | [[Cretaceous]]
 
|rowspan="12" style="background:{{period color|Cretaceous}}" | [[Cretaceous]]
 
|rowspan="6" style="background:{{period color|Late Cretaceous}}"| [[Late Cretaceous|Upper]]
 
|rowspan="6" style="background:{{period color|Late Cretaceous}}"| [[Late Cretaceous|Upper]]
|style="background:rgb(243,242,156)"| [[Maastrichtian]]
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|style="background:{{period color|Maastrichtian}}"| [[Maastrichtian]]
 
|rowspan="12"| [[Flowering plant]]s proliferate, along with new types of [[insect]]s. More modern [[teleost]] fish begin to appear. [[Ammonoidea]], [[Belemnoidea|belemnites]], [[rudist]] [[Bivalvia|bivalve]]s, [[Echinoidea|echinoid]]s and [[Porifera|sponges]] all common. Many new types of [[dinosaur]]s (e.g. [[Tyrannosauridae|Tyrannosaurs]], [[Titanosauridae|Titanosaurs]], [[Hadrosauridae|duck bills]], and [[Ceratopsidae|horned dinosaurs]]) evolve on land, as do [[Eusuchia]] ([[Crocodilia|modern crocodilians]]); and [[mosasaur]]s and modern [[shark]]s appear in the sea. Primitive [[bird]]s gradually replace [[pterosaurs]]. [[Monotremes]], [[marsupial]]s and [[Eutheria|placental]] mammals appear. Break up of [[Gondwana]]. Beginning of [[Laramide Orogeny|Laramide]] and [[Sevier Orogeny|Sevier Orogenies]] of the [[Rocky Mountains]]. [[Earth's atmosphere|Atmospheric]] CO<sub>2</sub> close to present-day levels.
 
|rowspan="12"| [[Flowering plant]]s proliferate, along with new types of [[insect]]s. More modern [[teleost]] fish begin to appear. [[Ammonoidea]], [[Belemnoidea|belemnites]], [[rudist]] [[Bivalvia|bivalve]]s, [[Echinoidea|echinoid]]s and [[Porifera|sponges]] all common. Many new types of [[dinosaur]]s (e.g. [[Tyrannosauridae|Tyrannosaurs]], [[Titanosauridae|Titanosaurs]], [[Hadrosauridae|duck bills]], and [[Ceratopsidae|horned dinosaurs]]) evolve on land, as do [[Eusuchia]] ([[Crocodilia|modern crocodilians]]); and [[mosasaur]]s and modern [[shark]]s appear in the sea. Primitive [[bird]]s gradually replace [[pterosaurs]]. [[Monotremes]], [[marsupial]]s and [[Eutheria|placental]] mammals appear. Break up of [[Gondwana]]. Beginning of [[Laramide Orogeny|Laramide]] and [[Sevier Orogeny|Sevier Orogenies]] of the [[Rocky Mountains]]. [[Earth's atmosphere|Atmospheric]] CO<sub>2</sub> close to present-day levels.
|style="background:rgb(243,242,156)"| 72.1 ±&nbsp;0.2<sup>*</sup>
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|style="background:{{period color|Maastrichtian}}"| 72.1 ±&nbsp;0.2<sup>*</sup>
 
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|style="background:rgb(234,237,147)"| [[Campanian]]
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|style="background:{{period color|Campanian}}"| [[Campanian]]
|style="background:rgb(234,237,147)"| 83.6 ±&nbsp;0.2
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|style="background:{{period color|Campanian}}"| 83.6 ±&nbsp;0.2
 
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|style="background:rgb(222,231,138)"| [[Santonian]]
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|style="background:{{period color|Santonian}}"| [[Santonian]]
|style="background:rgb(222,231,138)"| 86.3 ±&nbsp;0.5
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|style="background:{{period color|Santonian}}"| 86.3 ±&nbsp;0.5
 
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|style="background:rgb(209,227,130)"| [[Coniacian]]
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|style="background:{{period color|Coniacian}}"| [[Coniacian]]
|style="background:rgb(209,227,130)"| 89.8 ±&nbsp;0.3
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|style="background:{{period color|Coniacian}}"| 89.8 ±&nbsp;0.3
 
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|style="background:rgb(195,223,121)"| [[Turonian]]
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|style="background:{{period color|Turonian}}"| [[Turonian]]
|style="background:rgb(195,223,121)"| 93.9<sup>*</sup>
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|style="background:{{period color|Turonian}}"| 93.9<sup>*</sup>
 
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|style="background:rgb(181,218,113)"| [[Cenomanian]]
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|style="background:{{period color|Cenomanian}}"| [[Cenomanian]]
|style="background:rgb(181,218,113)"| 100.5<sup>*</sup>
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|style="background:{{period color|Cenomanian}}"| 100.5<sup>*</sup>
 
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|rowspan="6" style="background:{{period color|Early Cretaceous}}"| [[Early Cretaceous|Lower]]
 
|rowspan="6" style="background:{{period color|Early Cretaceous}}"| [[Early Cretaceous|Lower]]
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|style="background:{{period color|Valanginian}}"| c. 139.8
 
|style="background:{{period color|Valanginian}}"| c. 139.8
 
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|style="background:rgb(124,206,124)"| [[Berriasian]]
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|style="background:{{period color|Berriasian}}"| [[Berriasian]]
|style="background:rgb(124,206,124)"| c. 145.0
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|style="background:{{period color|Berriasian}}"| c. 145.0
 
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|rowspan="11" style="background:{{period color|Jurassic}}"| [[Jurassic]]
 
|rowspan="11" style="background:{{period color|Jurassic}}"| [[Jurassic]]

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