Silurian Time period
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SILURIAN TIME PERIOD
By: Laney, Brenda, RosaLee, & Vanessa xD
They grew anywhere moist enough to live
Plants grew along coastal waters They really conquered landscape The cooksonia is one of the earliest land
plants
Plants
There were corals and sea scorpions Also fearsome eurypterids There were fish such as spiny sharks There were many creepy crawlers such
as centipedes and arachnids The seas had many jawed fish
Glaciers starting to melt because climate was warm
Massive extinction During the time some of the contents
started to break away There was a huge flood during the
landovery and Wenlock times
Climate was much warmer during this period
It was also the time where it was very cold and much snow
Because of climate glaciers melted and caused sea level to rise
Some glaciers remained at high latitudes
Its formation came into existence about 25 million years ago.
Growth of corals and other marine organisms was stocked by oceans with tiny planktonic
The Silurian system is the third and youngest of t he Paleozoic systems
Interesting Facts
BIBLIOGRAPHY
•en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian•www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/
silurian_period.html•www.silurian.com/geology