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Dragonthunders — TFiF: Geological Timescale (V2)

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As in the past, the future will be divided into different periods of time will be initiated and finished by major events. However, this new geological scale will be a little different from the past. First, the names will not be the same typical nomenclatures found in several stories, including the common  Post- and Neo- prefix, will be different. Each was exposed here have a name according to the most important event that initiated or occur over this.


The second aspect is that we will not remain a single period or time, but several, we will go by the old way of view, each time in chronological order to give a glimpse of how life will change on Earth


Phanerozoic

541 B.C.-692 m.y.

This is the fourth eon on earth history, includes the rapid emergence and evolution of a number of phyla of animals, plants and fungi, being the most prominents the last two. These beings produce fairly profound changes in the chemistry and geology of the earth, which quite an impact on the composition of the atmosphere and climate, making the planet habitable and prosperous enough to maintain a complex biosphere.


Cenozoic

66 B.C.-145 m.y.

This era started after the great mass extinction of the late cretaceous, characterized by the rapid evolution and diversification of mammals and birds around the world, and largely by the decline in global temperatures, creating extreme cold weather and triggering huge glacial periods. 

Quaternary
2.58 B.C.-39 m.y.
The third period of the Cenozoic era was the most transforming moments in the history, with the onset of the ice ages, together with the emergence of humanity, the first native species of Earth in developing sapience. Series of minor extinctions occurred in the course of this point on time, caused by some erratic glacial cycle, coupled with the expansion of hominids around the world, which first became a successful and formidable hunter, and then a kind of powerful force, nothing like the earth has ever seen before.


-Holocene
0,117 B.C.-8.6 m.y.
The epoch were mankind rise and fall, this time earth went through the anthropogenic event, a catastrophic force caused by human activities that had begun in the late Pleistocene, and for much of the early holocene, caused great repercussions in the Earth biosphere. Humanity was the first native species of the planet to develop an advanced technological progress, enough to leave and colonize other planets. About 50% of the megafauna became extinct at the beginning of this epoch, but by human efforts, great part of the lost species managed to recover and prosper millions of years after. Although much of humanity migrated into space, a minority composed by tribal groups or clans remained on the planet, gradually getting back to nature as wild creatures, and largely losing the intelligence that characterizes them.


-Lethargocene

(New lethargy) 8.6-39 m.y.
This period of great climatic changes has created a fluctuation in ocean currents and amounts of greenhouse gases, significantly reducing the severity of ice ages and returning the longest interglacial periods. Still huge glaciers layers around Antarctica are presented. During this minor change, variety of megafauna species disappear, some are isolated between continents and the many survivors of the human era have taken several of the niches available. The progressive movement of the Antarctica to the north breaks the rhythm of the cold currents around the South Pole, causing the definitive end of the ice ages, however, even there are glaciers large numbers around the continent, while between Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean begins to rise and become a new mountain range


Agresti
(Wild) 
39-107 m.y.
This period started with the explosively end of the quaternary, caused by an asteroid that crashes in the northwest part of Asia, in Siberia, causing a minor mass extinction which finishes 45% of life on earth. This didn’t end the Age of Mammals, just changed its course, giving them a second chance to reborn. 


-Exevocene
(the new “past” of one) 39-65 m.y.
Represents the first epoch of the Agresti, is characterized by the first radiations of new families of mammals, many derived from deer, suids, weasels, hyracoids and among these, several crocodiles and birds around some of the isolated territories. In a way, this is almost a similar scenario as in the Paleogene with huge radiations of the fauna, but instead of primitive animals, these are more derived.


-Optimacene
(New and better) 65-107 m.y.
This is the second and last epoch of the Agresti. The descendants of the aforementioned mammals are became more derived from their ancestors, creating not only new families, but also new orders. After tens of millions of years ,Australia the north with Beringia, causing a great event called "The great Sahul Interchange" (Sahul is the geographic region in the Oceania continent, made up of Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea and several adjacent islands) leading to the extinction of a great part of the native fauna, mainly most of the marsupials.


Crescgeon
(Earth grows) 107-145 m.y.
The last geological period of the Cenozoic, is of great transformations begins to form new mountain ranges, while others such as the Himalayas and the Andes begin to erode. Nearly two-thirds of the land masses are concentrated in the northern hemisphere, thus forming a large continent Hyperborea. The creation of the great continent abruptly closes this period, along with the Cenozoic caused by the basaltic eruptions in what was the Arabian Peninsula by overheating of the asthenosphere caused by the weight of the macro-continent Hyperborea. This catastrophe ends with the 75% of all living species extinct.


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Therozoic

(The Bestial Life) 145-349 m.y

After 145 million years of progress without the humans, the earth and life itself is again ravaged by internal activity of our planet, manifested by the opening of a volcanic fissure around what was the Arabian peninsula, which became into huge basalt trap. In total, 85% of life was extinguished. Subsequent to the disaster, mammals lost much of its diversity, giving many other groups the opportunity to evolve.

Haemonova
(New Blood) 145-166 m.y.
With the end of the event, mammals were largely reduced, leaving them out of the path, and now the archosaurs again have the world at their disposal. Birds were one of the first around the planet, however, in many territories they were quickly overtaken by other groups.

On South America, the de derived descendants of the crocodiles began to quickly overcome the niches, known as Caenocrura, were at first little bipedal crocodilians covered with filament, being warm-blooded organisms. On Antarctica, the descendants of the bats still maintain a relative strength as the main carnivores and most herbivorous niches have been taken by birds. 

Agerogene
(New Leadership) 166-266 m.y.
The separation of the macro-continent hyperborea caused a gradual change in climate and biodiversity, and together with the continued isolation of the conglomerate in South America and Antarctica, led to the creation of 3 different biogeographical zones, dominated by a rather different variety of fauna and flora present in each territory; There is a considerable change with the fauna of the previous period, being more specialized and better adapted to their ecological niches.

Baikalian
(Named for the beginning of the formation of Baikal ocean in this epoch) 166-215 m.y.)
During this time both ecological and biological changes occur, the geography transforms, and goes in a completely different way to those who were predicted. As the dorsal of the Atlantic, the dorsal of the Baikal grew greatly, reaching to separate the great continent in the northern hemisphere, with Africa, Europe and parts of Asia to the west and the other part of Asia, Oceania and North America in course toward the east.

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Asophonian
215-266 m.y.

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Metamonus
(Beyond the order) 266-349 m.y.
This is a very warm period in Earth's history, becoming similar in temperature during the Jurassic period; some landmasses began to fragment and form new subcontinents and islands, and others to collide with each other. After several changes during the previous period, a considerable amount of predominant flora and fauna was lost largely because of a lower extinction, wiping out about 40% of diversity. Most the great dominant archosaurs and mammals were wipe out. Some of the most outstanding features of this time are the evolution of a new clade of flying animals, descendant of the monitor lizards, and the reborn of the marsupial megafauna, this time around south America and Antarctica. 

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Phinizoic
(End of Life) 349-692 m.y.

The final era of the Phanerozoic is an era of greater ecological dynamism with the formation of a new supercontinent causing a terrible catastrophe reaching a Permian scale, however, with a much larger and complex biodiversity. During the formation and separation of this only land mass, the lifeforms and lots of clades around the planet suffered a huge transformation, but many perished; those who remained, inherited another world. These new pioneers such as the Permian ones, returned to diversify, however, this new wave of new species would be totally different from what were their ancestors.


Retrogeian
(Receding Earth) 349-452 m.y.
The first period of the Phinizoic was mainly characterized by high volcanic activity that in certain form produced a significant reduction in biota and generates several anoxic events that caused the extinction of medium magnitude in the oceans (at least 50% of organism perished). The most momentous in this age is the formation of a new supercontinent, hysterea, being the next supercontinent after Pangea. Most of the tropical environment that had remained during the late therozoic began to disappear, replaced by a more hostile climate, with periods of extreme cold and heat. At the end of this period, about 75 to 80% of life on earth will be extinguished.


Klastogeian
(Broken Earth) 472-595 m.y.
The aftermath period, as in past post-extinction events has a relatively fast recovery, this time with a new complex variety of animals and plants, much more derived forms as we know. Animals that are diversified extraordinarily happen to be a lineage descendant of the geckos, Orthodactyla (bats) and pigs. A moderately strong new extinction caused by the separation of hysteria would cease as a result several empty niches, which would be taken by other groups. 

The most outstanding of this period is the appearance of new classes of vertebrates and invertebrates, caused by the huge derivation and also the new and fast radiations of many organisms.


Bathovician
(Deep change) 595-663 m.y.
This is the period of greatest ecological stability in relation of other periods around the Phinizoic era, despite having a climate quite varied by times of sufficient cold to enter into short glaciers periods and others times of tropical climate. During this time, there is an extreme fragmentation of land ecologies, created by the new continental arrangement, thus creating new zoogeographical areas dominated by a wide number of organisms. 
The sun has begun to increase its luminosity and temperature, and its effects are noticeable over the years: the atmosphere becomes denser, temperatures rise, and climatic cycles begin to unravel. A lethal effect of the increase in temperature of the sun is increasing the speed of weathering of silicate minerals. This produces a gradual reduction of the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The concentration of CO2 soon falls below the critical threshold needed to sustain photosynthesis in C3 plants, devastating much of the world's flora making the most of the continents in deserts. Not all plants die, still there are C4 support the eventual fall of the level of CO2.


Paenomorto
(Almost dead) 663-692 m.y.
The final period of the Phinizoic era, and also of all the Phanerozoic eon. It is the period of complete ecological instability, with the longer period of mass extinction that has suffered the Earth. A series of catastrophic events of both global as stellar scale wreak havoc on the biosphere and terrestrial habitability, adding to the delicate situation that the planet was happening with the increasing solar luminosity and the effects on the planet in the last million years. The earth and its inhabitants are stifled to the point that only a small number of species of whole classes survive. 

The situation seems lost, and probably the beginning of what would be the final agony before our planet loses its habitability and become a barren world and lifeless, however, a familiar species with this planet, makes efforts to save it, moving away to a more stable orbit which for hundreds of millions of years will allow the life to go, however, the damage done, it will take an enormous amount of time to recover.

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Akrozoic (Life at the top) 

692 m.y.-?

This is the fifth Eon on earth’s history which started after the catastrophic events that radically changed the outlook for the world, especially the changes in the distance between the sun and earth, keeping earth at safe levels for a longer time.

One of the most noticeable features are the transformations that several lineages of Earth organisms suffered, with the huge loss of classes and even some edges, maintained for many millions of years to life in a state of evolutionary stasis, the longest ever it has passed, lasting around 100 million.


Eozoic

(The Dawn of life) 692-883 m.y.

This is the first era of the Akrozoic, being something like the middle Paleozoic landscape. It took a long time for the biosphere to recover, especially by the flora that lost many groups in the previous 200 million years.

Erithohelion
(Red Sun) 692-739 m.y.
The amount of oxygen in much of the world is quite low, almost to the point of being similar to that of the high mountains, and most of the landscape is arid.

Many of terrestrial species are kept as small underground creatures, being the most no larger than a mouse, with a few exceptions, and around the oceans began an early recovery. It is also a strange times in terms of formation of unique ecologies, because for the lack of competition, certain types of organisms become dominant like lichens and ctenophores; the cosmopolitan animal vertebrate during this time around the world is the tardiavid. 

Ostracogene
(The birth of the shells) 739-796 m.y.
This is the second time in earth’s history where invertebrates became in one of the predominant megafauna animals around the world. Several lineages of cephalopods, crustaceans, arachnids and insects grow with the recovered flora and the new increase of oxygen in an environment which lacks large vertebrates.


Gyrinonian
(The time of the tadpoles) 796-868 m.y.
The age of the shells ended with the gradual decline of oxygen levels of the atmosphere, together with the appearance of vertebrates back into the landscape of megafauna.  The name is received mainly by the dominant group of animals around the planet, these are the descendants of neotenic amphibians which after hundreds of millions of years of evolution and radiations,


Pluralobian
(More life) 868-883 m.y.

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Soluvozoic

(The free life) 883-1000 m.y.

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Ceteromundi
(Another world) 883-937 m.y.
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Ambulogene
(New Walk) 937-972 m.y.
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Nasciaevus
(Age of born) 972-1000 m.y.
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-Clauscene

(Near the new) 972-997 m.y.
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-Luminari
(Lighted) 997-1000 m.y.
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Comments: 44

solardude23 [2024-09-20 20:51:06 +0000 UTC]

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vectormoon [2019-12-16 17:51:53 +0000 UTC]

Hi, I’m working on Precambrian (Archaean, Hadean) periods and epochs, and for the Hadean, eras. Do you have any ideas? On what I should use as etymological sources?

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vectormoon In reply to vectormoon [2019-12-16 17:54:49 +0000 UTC]

I mean, I know the first era of the Hadean shouldn’t be “-zoic” as that refers to life which there wasn’t any of in the early (4.6-4.2 Ga) Hadean.

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vectormoon In reply to vectormoon [2019-12-16 17:59:50 +0000 UTC]

I’ve decided to use Archizoic for the second era of the Hadean (4.2-4.0 Ga) as Archi means beginning and zoic has to do with life, or at least animals (zoon is animals I think)

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vectormoon In reply to vectormoon [2019-12-16 18:05:22 +0000 UTC]

Or maybe Eozoic for dawn of life. I don’t know.

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vectormoon In reply to vectormoon [2019-12-16 18:05:57 +0000 UTC]

No, archizoic. You already used Eozoic.

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vectormoon In reply to vectormoon [2019-12-16 17:56:07 +0000 UTC]

But I’m having trouble coming up with more than two periods per era.

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AGiLE-EaGLE1994 [2018-04-02 04:04:27 +0000 UTC]

I love these maps! C:

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Talon0550 [2017-06-11 20:00:58 +0000 UTC]

what is the Nasciaevus like?

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Evometheus6082 [2016-12-16 03:28:39 +0000 UTC]

what species moved the earth to a safer distance 

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AGiLE-EaGLE1994 In reply to Evometheus6082 [2018-04-02 04:03:51 +0000 UTC]

I'm willing to bet it was humans.

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Jakeukalane [2016-12-15 00:48:03 +0000 UTC]

Me encanta. ¡qué nivel de detalle! como siempre super fantástico


¿escribes todo esto directamente en inglés?

Quiero decir, si lo escribes en español y luego lo traduces (yo hago eso para mis deviations), pues entonces te pediría si puedieras incluir la versión en español; sin embargo si lo escribes en inglés directamente entiendo que es mucho trabajo en traducirlo de nuevo y ese tiempo puede estar mejor empleado en otra cosa.

Un saludo

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Dragonthunders In reply to Jakeukalane [2016-12-15 23:06:13 +0000 UTC]

Muchas gracias

Debo decir que si, escribo en primer lugar en español para luego traducirlo, sin embargo no guardo la version en español.

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Jakeukalane In reply to Dragonthunders [2016-12-17 21:34:47 +0000 UTC]

ah, vaya, bueno, estaría bien poder leerlo también en español, pero no quiero hacerte el trabajo más tedioso.

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Jdailey1991 [2016-09-15 02:21:25 +0000 UTC]

Is there a blank base for this?

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Dragonthunders In reply to Jdailey1991 [2016-09-15 02:39:42 +0000 UTC]

I dont understand what you say

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Jdailey1991 In reply to Dragonthunders [2016-09-15 02:44:44 +0000 UTC]

Did you fill in the timeline from an already existing, deliberately blank meme vector?

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Dragonthunders In reply to Jdailey1991 [2016-09-15 02:50:15 +0000 UTC]

No

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Jdailey1991 In reply to Dragonthunders [2016-09-15 03:04:34 +0000 UTC]

Then where did you get the timetable?

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Dragonthunders In reply to Jdailey1991 [2016-09-15 03:07:41 +0000 UTC]

Windows excel (the imagen on photoshop) 

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Breeblo [2016-05-22 15:28:24 +0000 UTC]

Will the timeline go on after Luminari?

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Dragonthunders In reply to Breeblo [2016-05-22 21:17:33 +0000 UTC]

Well, I have established up to that point in the future as limit, so probably no.

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ArcherGAR [2016-02-01 03:03:31 +0000 UTC]

Tienes un talento increíble para imaginar a todos estos animales... Suerte en tu proyecto, de seguro será grande aquí. n_n

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Dragonthunders In reply to ArcherGAR [2016-02-01 16:01:23 +0000 UTC]

Muchas gracias

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merkmuds [2015-10-29 18:28:38 +0000 UTC]

I imagine that the "unknown force" that moved earth away from the dying sun was future humanity looking after their original planet.

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Dragonthunders In reply to merkmuds [2015-11-02 01:21:55 +0000 UTC]

You're right

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zesk4 [2015-10-05 06:23:54 +0000 UTC]

If this was a documentary...
I would watch it...
and I'd then buy all of its merchandise...

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Dragonthunders In reply to zesk4 [2015-10-05 23:08:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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grisador [2015-09-04 20:40:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for doing this !

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Dragonthunders In reply to grisador [2015-09-05 01:10:10 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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grisador In reply to Dragonthunders [2015-09-05 19:58:33 +0000 UTC]

Keep up this awesome artworks

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TyrannosaurusRex-123 [2015-08-31 14:32:49 +0000 UTC]

This is fantastic. I hope that one day, there will be a "Walking with"-styled, future evolution documentary based on your series.

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Dragonthunders In reply to TyrannosaurusRex-123 [2015-09-01 23:32:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Tarturus [2015-08-24 23:22:33 +0000 UTC]

This is perhaps the most detailed outline of future time periods I've seen. Interesting set of future evolutionary events you've set up here. It is intriguing how you have one plot point where an "unknown force" moves Earth further away from the Sun, giving complex life here more time. Also, I'm really wondering who this new sapient species one billion years from now are.

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Dragonthunders In reply to Tarturus [2015-08-25 02:35:05 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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ForbiddenParadise64 [2015-08-24 09:41:39 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing , even if the time given for the sun to kill everything is a bit short and quick, as new research has shown it would take longer to reach that point- Peter Ward is notoriously pessimistic. 

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Dragonthunders In reply to ForbiddenParadise64 [2015-08-24 12:04:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I already sensed that, I have a plan B for this, instead of the sun will increase the growth, I going to chose others mass extinctions that that may occur at the same time, or probably will use a one in particular. thank for the info too.

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Leggurm [2015-08-24 07:22:24 +0000 UTC]

This is great! I hope to see more!

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Dragonthunders In reply to Leggurm [2015-08-24 11:59:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Leggurm In reply to Dragonthunders [2015-08-24 21:03:14 +0000 UTC]

No worries.

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ZoPteryx [2015-08-24 04:39:10 +0000 UTC]

Really interesting stuff!  Can't wait to see what these creatures all look like!

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Dragonthunders In reply to ZoPteryx [2015-08-24 12:05:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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TarbosaurusBatar [2015-08-24 04:28:52 +0000 UTC]

Interesting take on what the future may bring. 

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Dragonthunders In reply to TarbosaurusBatar [2015-08-24 12:13:39 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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