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The Earth's History: From the Cambrian Period to the Holocene
TLDR The Earth's history is divided into eons and eras, with the phanerozoic eon being particularly significant. This eon is divided into three eras: the paleozoic, mesozoic, and cenozoic, each marked by important events such as the sudden appearance of complex life forms, major extinction events, the formation of Pangea, the rise of dinosaurs, and the emergence of mammals and birds.
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The Earth's history is divided into various eras and periods to help clarify its timeline.
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The Earth's history is divided into eons, with the primary focus of this episode being the phanerozoic eon, which is divided into three eras: the paleozoic, mesozoic, and cenozoic, with the Cambrian period being particularly significant due to the sudden appearance of complex life forms in the fossil record.
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The Ordovician period saw the appearance of the first fish with jaws and the first vertebrate animals, as well as a high number of meteor strikes, while the Celerian period marked the first major extinction event and the appearance of vascular plants and arthropod-type creatures on land.
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The Carboniferous period saw the highest oxygen levels in Earth's history, the formation of the supercontinent Pangea, and the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse, which created most of the coal beds we know today and islands of life. The Permian period saw the rise of higher level vertebrates and ended with the largest mass extinction event in Earth's history, believed to be caused by massive volcanism.
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During the Triassic, archosaurs, Petrosaurs, dinosaurs, and early mammals emerged, Pangea broke up into Loresia and Gondwana, and the Jurassic period saw the dominance of dinosaurs and the emergence of flowering plants, while the Cretaceous period was characterized by the largest dinosaurs, a warm climate, and ended with a mass extinction event believed to be caused by a meteor impact in the Yucatan Peninsula.
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The Cenozoic era began after a mass extinction event, during which mammals rose to prominence, birds evolved from flying dinosaurs, and the continents shifted into their current positions.
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The Holocene marks the beginning of human agriculture and the Younger Dryas is an important period in human history.
