Eon	Era	Period	Epoch	Sites
P H A N E R O Z O I C	C E N O Z O I C	Q U A T E R N A R Y	HOLOCENE	The epoch in which we are currently living started around 10,000 years ago. Tasmanian Wolves, Carolina Parakeets and Dodo Birds are but a few of the species which have gone extinct in this epoch.
			PLEISTOCENE  0.01-2.6mya	Fossils from the Pleistocene look quite similar to organisms currently living today. A good site to visit is the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Links: La Brea Tar Pits - Los Angeles, California Pleistocene Epoch Localities - UCMP
		T E R T I A R Y	PLIOCENE 2.6-5.3mya	Links: Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument - Idaho Pliocene Epoch Localities - UCMP
			MIOCENE 5.3-23mya	Links: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument - Nebraska Miocene Epoch Localities - UCMP
			OLIGOCENE 23-33.9mya	Links: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Oregon Oligocene Epoch Localities - UCMP
			EOCENE 33.9-55.8mya	Links: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - Colorado Eocene Fossils - (Plants and Insects) David Kohls, Colorado Mountain College Eocene Epoch Localities - UCMP
			PALEOCENE 55.8-65.5mya	Links: Fossil Butte National Monument - Wyoming The Paleocene Epoch - UCMP
	M E S O Z O I C
		CRETACEOUS 65.5-145.5mya		Links: Comanche National Grassland - Apatosaurus and Allosaurus tracks Monument Rocks (Smoky Hill Chalk, Late Cretaceous, 87-82 mya) Dinosaur Provincial Park - Alberta, Canada Hell Creek (Montana) Project - Jack Horner, University of Montana Hell Creek (Montana) Life - Philip Bigelow Oceans of Kansas Paleontology Fossils of the Gault Clay and Folkstone Beds of Kent, UK Cretaceous Period Localities - UCMP	Links: DinoData DinoBuzz - UCMP
		JURASSIC 145.5-199.6mya		Links: Dinosaur National Monument - Utah/Colorado Jurassic Period Localities - UCMP
		TRIASSIC 199.6-251mya		Links: Petrified Forest National Park - Arizona Triassic Period Localities - UCMP
	P A L E O Z O I C	PERMIAN 251-299mya		Links: The Permian - UCMP Konza Prairie Glass Mountains, Texas (near Big Bend and McDonald Observatory)
		PENNSYLVANIAN 299-318.1mya		Links: Mazon Creek Fossils - Illinois State Museum Hamilton Quarry - A Permo-Carboniferous Fossil Site in Greenwood County, Kansas Plant Fossils of West Virginia - Monte Hieb and Harrison Hieb, West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey The Carboniferous - UCMP
		MISSISSIPPIAN 318.1-359.2mya		Links: Dendrerpeton and Joggins, Nova Scotia (on the Bay of Fundy) Ophiuroids from the Imo Formation (Chesterian: Mississippian) of northern Arkansas The Carboniferous - UCMP
		DEVONIAN 359.2-416mya		Links: Devonian Fossil Gorge - Iowa Falls of the Ohio State Park - Indiana Devonian Times - Pennsylvania The Devonian - UCMP
		SILURIAN 416-443.7mya		Links: Virtual Silurian Reef - Milwaukee Public Museum The Silurian - UCMP
		ORDOVICIAN 443.7-488.3mya		Links: Ordovician Trentonian fauna from the Galena and Maquoketa of West De Pere and Green Bay, Wisconsin - Jeremy Shaw Mohawk Valley Fossils - New York The Ordovician - UCMP
		CAMBRIAN 488.3-542mya		The Burgess Shale in Canada's Yoho National Park is arguably the most famous fossil site on earth. Links: Yoho National Park - Alberta, Canada Burgess Shale Fossils - Andrew MacRae, University of Calgary Fossils of the Burgess Shale - Middle Cambrian - Pamela J. W. Gore, Georgia Perimeter College The Burgess Shale On-Line Exhibit - The Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta The World's Most Significant Fossil Discovery - The Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation The Burgess Shale - Students of Brian R. Speer, University of California at Berkeley The Burgess Shale : A Hidden Treasure In The Canadian Rockies - Niranjala Kottachchi, 3rd year geology student at Carlton University, Canada Strange Creatures - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History The Burgess Shale Fossil Bed - Science Web Fossils Of The Burgess Shale - eaglefordtexas.com The Cambrian - UCMP
PROTEROZOIC 542-2500mya				Links: Nopah Range Stromatolites - Mojave Desert Mistaken Point, Newfoundland Stromatolites Introduction to the Proterozoic Era - UCMP
ARCHEAN 2500-4000mya				Links: Voyageurs National Park 3.45 billion year-old stromatolites in Western Australia Cyanobacteria: Fossil Record Introduction to the Archaean - UCMP
HADEAN 3800-4600mya				Links: Voyageurs National Park Hadean Time - UCMP