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Paleozoic (pronounced PAY-lee-oh-ZOH-ik) means "ancient life" — from Greek palaios = ancient + zoē = life.
In geology it refers to the era of Earth’s history between about 541 and 252 million years ago (the first era of the Phanerozoic Eon). Key points:
- Subdivisions: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian.
- Major events: the Cambrian Explosion (rapid diversification of animal life), the first animals with hard shells, the rise of fishes, the first land plants and arthropods, the appearance of the first tetrapods (early amphibians) and reptiles, large swampy coal forests, and the assembly of the supercontinent Pangaea.
- Typical fossils: trilobites, brachiopods, early fishes, eurypterids (sea scorpions), early amphibians and reptiles, and abundant plant fossils in Carboniferous coal beds.
- End: it ended with the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (~252 Ma), the largest extinction in Earth’s history.
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In geology it refers to the era of Earth’s history between about 541 and 252 million years ago (the first era of the Phanerozoic Eon). Key points:
- Subdivisions: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian.
- Major events: the Cambrian Explosion (rapid diversification of animal life), the first animals with hard shells, the rise of fishes, the first land plants and arthropods, the appearance of the first tetrapods (early amphibians) and reptiles, large swampy coal forests, and the assembly of the supercontinent Pangaea.
- Typical fossils: trilobites, brachiopods, early fishes, eurypterids (sea scorpions), early amphibians and reptiles, and abundant plant fossils in Carboniferous coal beds.
- End: it ended with the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (~252 Ma), the largest extinction in Earth’s history.
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