Template:Life timeline

Life timeline

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photosynthesis

Eukaryotes

Multicellular
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Land life

Dinosaurs    

Mammals

Flowers

 

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Earliest Earth (−4540)

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Earliest water

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Earliest life

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LHB meteorites

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Earliest oxygen

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Atmospheric oxygen

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Oxygen crisis

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Earliest sexual reproduction

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Ediacara biota

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Cambrian explsn

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Earliest humans

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Huronian

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Quaternary

Axis scale: millions of years.
Orange labels: known ice ages.
Also see: Human timeline and Nature timeline

Template documentation

Usage

This clickable timeline template, wikilinked to over 30 Wikipedia articles, translated into over 15 languages, edited by over 60 editors, was originally derived from "Template:Life timeline (en)" for inclusion in the article "Timeline of the evolutionary history of life". It is not an article!

To use it in an article, use the code {{Life timeline}}
.

See also

• Cosmic Calendar
• Geological history
• Graphical timeline of the universe
• {{Include timeline}}
• {{Human timeline}}
• Nature timeline
• Template:Life timeline images:
  • Archives: (Perm20170822); (Wayback20170822).
  • Screen Captures: (20170116); (20170822).
• Template:Life timeline transclusions
• Timeline of the formation of the Universe