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By: Laney, Brenda, RosaLee , & Vanessa x D. Silurian Time period. Plants. 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. Animals. There were corals and sea scorpions
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By: Laney, Brenda, RosaLee, & Vanessa xD Silurian Time period
Plants • 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
Animals • 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
Events • 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 • 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
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/silurian_period.html www.silurian.com/geology BIBLIOGRAPHY