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To help compare
orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 1016 seconds (320 million years) and 1017 seconds (3200 million years). "See also" times of other orders of magnitude.* Shorter times
* 340 million years—time since the beginning of theCarboniferous and the end ofDevonian period
* 400 million years—time since the beginning of the Devonian and the end of theSilurian period
* 420 million years—time since the first creature took a breath of air
* 435 million years—time since the beginning of theSilurian and the end of theOrdovician period
* 500 million years—time since the beginning of theOrdovician and the end of theCambrian period
* 540 million years—time since the beginning of theCambrian and the end of thePrecambrian period. Time since theCambrian explosion and age of the earliestVertebrate s.
* 575 million years— age of the oldestAnimal fossils
* 580 million years—time since the end of a possibleSnowball Earth ice age
* 600 million years—age of first complex multicelled lifeforms
* 703.8 million years—half-life ofuranium -235
* 750 million years—time since the beginning of a possibleSnowball Earth ice age
* 1277 million years—half-life ofpotassium -40
* 1.8-2.1 billion years—age of the earliestEukaryote s
* 2.3 billion years—time since the first known ice age
* 3.0 billion years—time until the potentialAndromeda-Milky Way collision , between theMilky Way and Andromeda galaxies
* Longer times
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