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Geological Time
| ERA | PERIOD | ABSOLUTE TIME (Millions of years ago, mya) |
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| QUATERNARY | Holocene | Last 10,000 years |
| Pleistocene | 0-2 | |
| TERTIARY | Pliocene | 2-5 |
| Miocene | 5-25 | |
| Oligocene | 25-34 | |
| Eocene | 34-54 | |
| Palaeocene | 54-65 | |
| MESOZOIC | Cretaceous | 65-144 |
| Jurassic | 144-213 | |
| Triassic | 213-248 | |
| PALAEOZOIC | Permian | 248-286 |
| Carboniferous | 286-354 | |
| Devonian | 354-412 | |
| Silurian | 412-435 | |
| Ordovician | 435-492 | |
| Cambrian | 492-570 | |
| Precambrian | 570-4600 |
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