The Mesozoic Era is called the "age of dinosaurs". The Carboniferous Period is famous for its coal swamps. The Precambrian was after the "explosion of Life". Humans first appeared, and the last ice age occured in the Pleistocene Epoch. Human life ended the Mesozoic Era. The time periods are in order from longest to shortest, period, epoch then era.
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/evolvingplanet/post/ep_v8.swf
Tour Through Time
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/quaternary/ple.html
Geologic Time
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