@ Dr. Heinz Lycklama
The Geological Column
Cenozoic
Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Few fossils
Ediacarian fauna (odd marine organisms)
Very few fossils, maybe none
Many pseudo fossils
Dinosaurs
Mammals, cycads, conifers, angiosperms
Conifers, more reptiles and amphibians
“The age of fish” small land plants
Many fossils, all modern phyla ex.
bryozoa
Many crinoids, amphibia and reptiles
Coal “forests” many primitive land
plants
Jawless fish, strange land plants
Many marine organisms including
bryozoa
Extinction of dinosaurs and many
families
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Triassic
Devonian
Cambrian
Permian
Carboniferous
Silurian
Ordovician
Proterozoic
Archean
