TIMELINE |
|
Years (ca) |
Event |
30–16,000 B.P. 60-42,000 B.P
|
Extinction of Australia’s Megafauna The first evidence of human colonisation of Australia |
2 Ma |
Megafauna dominates |
25 Ma |
Opal formation |
65 Ma |
Extinction of the Dinosaurs |
95 Ma |
Eromanga dinosaur ‘Cooper’ |
110 Ma |
Eromanga Sea inundates the Eromanga Basin |
115-95 Ma |
Eromanga Basin |
128 Ma |
Tookoonooka |
250-205 Ma |
Eromanga Basin forms |
298-250 Ma |
Cooper Basin forms |
354-298 Ma |
Lush peat lands form |
410-354 Ma |
Adavale Basin forms |
434-410 Ma |
Uplifting emerges land |
500-550 Ma |
Gondwana forms |
4.6 Ga |
Earth forms |
KEY
BP = Before Present
Ma = Million Years Ago
Ga = Billion Years Ago
ca = approximate
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