Asked by london

The diagram below represents a series of rock layers. Each different type of shape shown in the layers represents a fossil of a different species. For example, the green circles represent one species while the purple stars represent another. Examine the diagram, and then answer the question that follows.


For the location and time interval represented by these rock layers, when did the most drastic and sudden change in life forms occur?
A.
370 million years ago
B.
376 million years ago
C.
382 million years ago
D.
360 million years ago

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
B. 376 million years ago

At the rock layer dated 376 Ma many of the fossil shapes found below disappear and are replaced abruptly by several new shapes above that layer, indicating the most sudden and drastic change in life forms.