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The Paleozoic is bracketed by two of the most important events in the history of animal life. At its beginning, multicelled animals underwent a dramatic "explosion" in diversity, and almost all living animal phyla appeared within a few millions of years.
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Two great animal faunas dominated the seas during the Paleozoic. The "Cambrian fauna" typified the Cambrian oceans; Later Paleozoic seas were dominated by crinoid and blastoid echinoderms, articulate brachiopods, graptolites, and tabulate and rugose corals.
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An intro to the Paleozoic era, includes a review of each of the geological sub-divisions and the various forms of life that lived during this time ... The Paleozoic - 1...
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The Ordovician Period is the second period of the Paleozoic Era. This important period saw the origin and rapid evolution of many new types of invertebrate animals which replaced their Cambrian predecessors. Primitive plants move onto land, until then totally barren.
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Paleozoic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BobAinsworth.com - The Palaeozoic Era. An illustrated geological time line for the Palaeozoic era, which includes the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods. ... The Permian period begins 286 million years ago and spans 38 million years. It is the closing period ... Amphibians, such as Eryops,
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Learn about fossils. Fossil reference source. Paleolist, the fossil mailing list. Gallery of fossil photographs. Information about fossils for collectors, enthusiasts, paleontologists, dealers. ... Paleozoic.org is the place where professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts trade news, information, and fossils,
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Paleozoic.org is the website where fossils live — a free educational resource dedicated to the exchange of information and ideas between paleontologists, fossil collectors, hunters, and dealers...
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It is believed there were some 15,000 species that evolved during the Paleozoic. Hence, the Paleozoic is sometimes called the age of trilobites. ... However, the dependency on a moist environment caused the extinction of most taxa during arid conditions that prevailed near the end of the Paleozoic. Similary,
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Limestone deposits near Burlington, Missouri. ... The Paleozoic took up over half of the Phanerozoic, approximately 300 million years. During the Paleozoic there were six major continental land masses; each of these consisted of different parts of the modern continents.
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