THE SILURIAN PERIOD

TIME PERIOD

ANIMALS

• There was a lot of marine life like
• Jawless fish,Agnatha,similar to
• Hagfish, and lampreys'

LANDSCAPE

• The plate tectonic activity continued to shift the continents
• The rising sea level formed a continuous sea from New York to Nevada
• Other shallow sea is covered by land.

WEATHER

• The global climate became warmer compared to the Ordovician
• And Devonian periods
• A new greenhouse phase began leading to the melting of glacial ice sheets

ACTIVITIES

• Since a lot of glacial ice sheet were melting
• Animal make a game to see who could walk on the ice
• Without falling in.

GENERAL INFO

• On land plants became more established and grew
• In o zone along the edges of rivers and lakes to give
• Earth it's first riverine and wetland habitats

SOURCES

• http://paleobiology.si.edu/geotime/main/htmlVersion/silurian4.html
• http://www.livescience.com/43514-silurian-period.html
• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/silurian/silurian.php