Mnemonic Devices for
Memorization (Geologic Time
Scale, etc.) questiona and
answers
Camels Often Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak -
answer Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous
(Mississippian, Pennsylvanian), Permian, Triassic, Jurassic,
Cretaceous
Paleo Needs Quads - answer Paleogene, Neogene, Quaternary
Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup - answer Domain,
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Help Add Purple Pants - answer Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic,
Phanerozoic
Paleozoic=Permian - answer Paleozoic era goes up until the Permian
Mesozoic= Dinosaurs - answer Mesozoic era goes from Triassic-
Cretaceous
Cenozoic= After dinos - answer Cenozoic goes up from the
Paleogene
Beginning of the Quaternary - answer 2.6 mya
Beginning of the Cenozoic - answer 66 mya
Memorization (Geologic Time
Scale, etc.) questiona and
answers
Camels Often Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak -
answer Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous
(Mississippian, Pennsylvanian), Permian, Triassic, Jurassic,
Cretaceous
Paleo Needs Quads - answer Paleogene, Neogene, Quaternary
Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup - answer Domain,
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Help Add Purple Pants - answer Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic,
Phanerozoic
Paleozoic=Permian - answer Paleozoic era goes up until the Permian
Mesozoic= Dinosaurs - answer Mesozoic era goes from Triassic-
Cretaceous
Cenozoic= After dinos - answer Cenozoic goes up from the
Paleogene
Beginning of the Quaternary - answer 2.6 mya
Beginning of the Cenozoic - answer 66 mya
