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Prehistoric periods & events
(in geochronological order)

Pre-Cambrian time (a.k.a. Cryptozoic)
Proterozoic eon ("eon of first life")
 * Paleoproterozoic era
 * Oxygen catastrophe
 * Mesoproterozoic era
 * Neoproterozoic
 * Tonian period
 * Cryogenian period
 * Snowball earth
 * Ediacaran period
 * Ediacaran biota

Phanerozoic eon
("eon of well-displayed life")

Paleozoic era
 * Cambrian period
 * Cambrian explosion of invertebrates as fossils
 * Burgess shale invertebrates (best fossils of early Paleozoic)
 * Cambrian-Ordovician extinction
 * Ordovician period
 * Ordovician-Silurian extinction
 * Silurian period
 * Devonian period
 * Late Devonian extinction
 * Carboniferous period
 * Mississippian epoch
 * Pennsylvanian epoch
 * Permian period (demise of trilobites, graptolites, rugose corals & sea scorpions)
 * Permian-Triassic extinction

Mesozoic era
 * Triassic period
 * Triassic-Jurassic extinction
 * Jurassic period
 * Cretaceous period
 * Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction

Cenozoic era
 * Paleogene period, a.k.a. early Tertiary
 * Neogene period, a.k.a. late Tertiary & Quarternary
 * Holocene extinctions

Prehistoric oceans, continents & seas

 * Angara continent
 * Baltica continent
 * Fennoscandia continent
 * Gondwana supercontinent
 * Laurasia continent
 * Laurentia continent
 * Laurussia continent
 * Mirovia Ocean
 * Paleo-Tethys Ocean
 * Pangea supercontinent
 * Pannotia supercontinent
 * Panthalassa or Panthalassic Ocean
 * Rodinia supercontinent
 * Tethys Ocean

Fossils & evolution of invertebrates

 * Evolution of invertebrates, etc.
 * Evolutionary history of life
 * Extinction events
 * Fossils of invertebrates, etc.
 * Fossil collecting
 * Fossil parks open to visitors
 * Geologic timescale -- has eras/periods of ancient life
 * Glaciations
 * History of earth
 * Ice ages
 * Index fossils or guide fossils
 * Invertebrate paleontology
 * List of fossil sites -- with link directory
 * List of notable fossils -- includes invertebrate fossil beds
 * List of transitional fossils
 * Living fossil
 * Macrofossils -- includes megafossils
 * Mass extinctions
 * Microfossils -- including microscopic invertebrates
 * Phylogenetic tree of life's evolution
 * Prehistoric animals
 * Pseudofossils -- fossil-like stones and rocks
 * Radiations of invertebrates, etc.
 * Taxonomy of commonly fossilised invertebrates (w/ internal links)
 * Timeline of evolution -- has era/periods of past life
 * Trace fossils -- indirect evidence of past life

Areas of scientific inquiry

 * Biochemistry, a.k.a. Organic chemistry
 * Biometrics -- Biology and Statistics
 * Developmental biology and Embryology
 * Earth sciences and Geology
 * Evolutionary biology
 * Evolution, the science of
 * Evolutionary developmental biology ("Evo-devo")
 * Geochemistry or earth chemistry
 * Geochronology and Historical geology
 * History of biology
 * History of evolutionary thought
 * History of geology
 * History of invertebrate paleozoology -- espec. marine invertebrates
 * History of paleontology -- espec. dinosaurs and mammals
 * Malacology -- mollusk shells, etc.
 * Marine biology and Oceanography
 * Micropaleontology -- incl. microscopic invertebrates
 * Natural history and Museums
 * Paleobiology, a subfield of biology
 * Paleoclimatology -- ancient climates
 * Paleoecology -- ancient ecosystems
 * Paleogeography -- ancient lands and seas
 * Paleontologists -- includes paleobiologists
 * Paleontology, a subfield of geology
 * Paleozoology -- the study of all ancient animals
 * Paleozoology: Vertebrates
 * Petrology -- science of rocks & stones
 * Phylogenetics regarding invertebrates
 * Scientific methodology or methods of inquiry
 * Sedimentology and Sedimentary rock
 * Stratigraphy and Rock strata
 * Zoology and its I.C.Z.N. regarding animal taxa