Silurian Time period

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