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 The Hadean -is the first geologic eon of Earth

and lies before the Archean. It began with the


formation of the Earth about 4.6 billion years ago
and ended, as defined by the ICS, 4 billion years
ago.

The geologist Preston Cloud coined the term in


1972, originally to label the period before the
earliest-known rocks on Earth. W. Brian
Harland later coined an almost synonymous term:
the "Priscoan period". Other, older texts simply
refer to the eon as the Pre-Archean.
 The Archean Eon began about 4 billion years
ago with the formation of the Earth's crust and
extended to the start of the Proterozoic Eon 2.5
billion years ago; the latter is the second division
of Precambrian time
The Proterozoic is a geological
eon representing the time just before the
proliferation of complex life on Earth.

The Proterozoic Eon extended


from 2500 Ma to 542.0±1.0 Ma (million
years ago), and is the most recent part of
the Precambrian.
The Phanerozoic is the one during which
abundant animal and plant life has existed. It
covers 541.0 ± 1.0 million years and goes back
to the period when diverse hard-shelled
animals first appeared.
 The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era from the
Greek palaios "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life",
meaning “ancient life” is the earliest of
three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Era,
spanning from roughly 541 to 252.17 million
years ago. It is the longest of the Phanerozoic
eras, and is subdivided into six geologic periods.

-Cambrian -Carboniferous
-Ordovician -Permian
-Silurian -Devonian
 Cambrian is the first geological period of
Paleozoic Era, lasting from 541.0 ± 1.0 to 485.4 ±
1.9 million years ago (mya) and is succeeded by
the Ordovician. The Cambrian sparks a boom in
evolution in an event known as the Cambrian
Explosion in which the largest number of
creatures evolve in the history of Earth during
one period. Creatures like algae evolve, but
most of the water is populated by armored
arthropods, like trilobites.
The Ordovician spans from 485 million years to
440 million years ago. The Ordovician is a time
in Earth's history in which many species still
prevalent today evolved. More importantly, the
first arthropods went ashore to colonize the
empty continent of Gondwana.
The Silurian spans from 440 million years to 415
million years ago. The Silurian saw the healing of
the earth that recovered from the snowball
earth. This period saw the mass evolution of fish,
as jaw-less fish became more numerous, jawed
fish evolved, and the first freshwater fish evolved,
though arthropods, such as sea scorpions, were
still apex predators.
The Devonian spans from 415 million years to 360
million years ago. Also known as "The Age of the
Fish", the Devonian features a huge
diversification of fish, including armored fish
like Dunkleosteus and lobe-finned fish which
eventually evolved into the first tetrapods.
 The Carboniferous spans from 360 million to 300
million years ago. During this time, average
global temperatures were exceedingly high; the
early Carboniferous averaged at about 20
degrees Celsius (but cooled down to 10 degrees
during the Middle Carboniferous). Tropical
swamps dominated the earth, and the large
amounts of trees created much of the carbon for
the coal that is used today (hence the name
"Carbon-iferous").
The Permian spans from 300 million to 250 million
years ago and was the last period of the
Paleozoic. At the beginning, all continents
formed together to form the super-continent
Pangaea, surrounded by one ocean
called Panthalassa.
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