since dinosaurs
The smallest unit of geologic time is an age, followed by epoch, period, era, eon, and super eon.
epoch
Epoch
epoch
The shortest piece of Geologic time is the Holocene Epoch in the Cenozoic Era>
The order of the geologic time intervals is Eon, Era, Period, Epoch.
After an era, the next smallest division of time would be an epoch. An epoch is equal to around 10,000,000 years, where as an era is 100,000,000 years.
It is a "period" and then an "epoch".
It is an age. The second smallest is a period.
We are living in the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period in the Cenozoic Era of geologic time.
Eon, Era, Period, Epoch (from largest to smallest)
We are living in the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period in the Cenozoic Era of geologic time.