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To help compare
orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 1015 seconds (a "petasecond") and 1016 seconds (32 million years and 320 million years) "See also" times of other orders of magnitude.* Shorter times
* 34 million years -- time since the evolution of thecat .
* 34.7 million years --half-life ofniobium -92
* 36 million years -- time since end ofEocene Epoch and beginning ofOligocene Epoch; age of the "Cercopithecidae " (Old World primates) superfamily.
* 40 million years -- estimated period of time until Australia will collide with Asia; time since the age of the "Catarrhini " parvorder. Time since the evolution of the first canines.
* 49 million years -- time since thewhale s returned to the water.
* 60 million years -- time since the evolution of the firstprimates .
* 65 million years -- time sinceCretaceous-Tertiary extinction event at end ofCretaceous Period (end ofMesozoic Era) and beginning ofTertiary Period (beginning ofCenozoic Era).Cretaceous mass extinction ; end of the age of thedinosaur s.
* 135 million years -- time since end ofJurassic and beginning of Cretaceous Period.
* 195 million years -- time since end of Triassic and beginning of Jurassic Period; time since the appearance of the earliestmammal s.
* 250 million years --Galactic year - a revolution around the center of theMilky way of ourSun and theSolar system .
* 251.4 million years -- time since thePermian mass extinction . End ofPermian Period and of thePalaeozoic Era. Beginning ofTriassic Period, theMesozoic era and of the age of the dinosaurs.
* 280 million years -- time since end ofCarboniferous and beginning of Permian Period.
* Longer times
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