Devonian Period
419-359 million years ago · Event
The age of fishes — armoured placoderms like the bus-sized Dunkleosteus rule the seas — and the age of the great leap: lobe-finned fish like Tiktaalik haul themselves into the shallows, and by the period's end the first four-legged vertebrates walk on land beneath the first true forests.
On these timelines: The Age of Dinosaurs, Master
More from The Age of Dinosaurs
- Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction (66000000 BCE)
- Tyrannosaurus rex (68000000 BCE)
- Mesozoic Era (252000000 BCE)
- Paleozoic Era (541000000 BCE)
- Jurassic Period (201000000 BCE)
- Cretaceous Period (145000000 BCE)
- Triassic Period (252000000 BCE)
- Archaeopteryx and the first birds (150000000 BCE)
Around 419000000 BCE
- First land plants (425000000 BCE)
- Ordovician–Silurian extinction (443000000 BCE)
- Silurian Period (443000000 BCE)
- First forests (385000000 BCE)