NOTE: the times and events listed above are approximate and are subject to vary according to various interpretations of geological time. Recent discoveries may also lead to reevaluations of times and events. This purpose of the timeline is simply to provide a crude scale by which to gauge amber's history with respect to major events geological and evolutionary time.

At some point in the near future, my goal is to convert this timeline into a clickable image map, where clicking on individual times and/or events will link to additional information or images.