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Geologic Timeline: The last 144 million years of Earth's 4.6 billion year history.

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PLEISTOCENE
American lion
Capybara
Dire wolf
Flightless auk
Ground sloth
Mammoth
Mastodon
Packrat
Sabertooth cat
Western camel

PLIOCENE
Gray whale
Lewis' moon snail
Long-snouted dolphin
Rock crab
Sand dollars
Scallop
Sea cow
Walrus

MIOCENE
Allodesmus
Basalt
Brain coral
Megalodon shark

OLIGOCENE
Mesocyon
Nimravus
Sespia
Tortoise

EOCENE
Brontothere
Crassatellid clam
Palm
Peratherium
Protoreodon
Red rhyolite
Tapocyon

K-T Rock

CRETACEOUS
Albertosaurus
Ammonite
Ankylosaur
Apporahid snail
Cycad
Lambeosaurus

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Pleistocene Epoch 1.8 million-10,000 years ago.
Pliocene Epoch 5-1.8 million years ago.
Miocene Epoch 24-5 million years ago.
Oligocene Epoch 34-24 million years ago.
Eocene Epoch 53-34 million years ago.
Paleocene Epoch 65-55 million years ago.
Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary Rock, 65 million years ago.
Cretaceous Period 144-65 million years ago.
Earth's history began 4.6 billion years ago.
MYA = million years ago.