The shortest era in geological time is the Cenozoic Era, the current era. It started 65.5 million years ago with the K-T extinction event.
List from longest to shortest.
Paleoproterzoic (2,500 - 1,600 ma) - 900 million years
Mesoproterzoic (1,600 - 1,000 ma) - 600 million years
Neoproterzoic (1,000 - 542 ma) - 458 million years
Paleoarchean (3,600 - 3,200 ma) - 400 million years
Meseoarchean (3,200 - 2,800 ma) - 400 million years
Neoarcheasn (2,800 - 2,500 ma) - 300 million years
Paleozoic (542 - 251 ma) - 291 million years
Eoarchean (3,800 - 3,600 ma) - 200 million years
Mesozoic (251 - 65.5 ma) 185 million years
Cenozoic (65.5 ma - Now) 65.5 million years
The shortest piece of Geologic time is the Holocene Epoch in the Cenozoic Era>
Cenozoic is not a major period of the geologic time scale. The scale is broken down into eras. Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic are all part of the Phanerozic era.
Phanerozoic is the eon which geologic time scale means visable life.
Eon is the broadest division on the geologic time scale, representing the longest time span. Eons are further divided into eras, which are then subdivided into periods, epochs, and ages.
Epoch
The shortest interval of geologic time is a nanosecond, which is one billionth of a second. It is used in some specialized fields of geology and geochronology to measure very rapid geological events or processes.
The shortest division in the geologic time scale is an Epoch. Epochs are subdivisions of a period and are typically tens of millions of years long.
Eon, epoch, period, era
The shortest interval of time that can be geologically referenced is usually within a few years to decades, and it is often associated with specific events like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, or floods. These short time intervals are typically recorded in sediment layers, ice cores, tree rings, or other natural archives.
The geologic time scale is divided into four eons: Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and Phanerozoic. Phanerozoic eon is the most recent and divided into three eras: Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. Each era is further divided into periods, epochs, and ages, with the ages being the shortest divisions of time on the geologic time scale.
The shortest piece of Geologic time is the Holocene Epoch in the Cenozoic Era>
The Quaternary period is the shortest era in the geologic time scale. It began about 2.6 million years ago and continues to the present day.
The longest subdivision in geologic time is the eon, which is further divided into eras. Eons represent the largest interval of time in the geologic time scale, such as the Phanerozoic eon which encompasses the last 541 million years.
The order of units of geologic time from longest to shortest is: eon, era, period, epoch.
The geologic time scale.
Geologic Time. It's called the Geologic Time Scale.
Cenozoic