timescale, the Middle Devonian epoch (from 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago to 382.7 ± 1.6 million years ago) occurred during the Devonian period, after the...
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forming extensive coal forests which covered the continents. By the middle of the Devonian, several groups of vascular plants had evolved leaves and true roots...
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Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Late Devonian mass extinction, also known as the Kellwasser event, was a mass extinction...
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Geology of Orkney (section Middle Devonian)
geology of the Orkney islands in northern Scotland is dominated by the Devonian Old Red Sandstone (ORS). In the southwestern part of Mainland, this sequence...
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The Early Devonian is the first of three epochs comprising the Devonian period, corresponding to the Lower Devonian series. It lasted from 419.62 ± 1...
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The Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution, also known as the Devonian Plant Explosion (DePE) and the Devonian explosion, was a period of rapid colonization...
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Givetian (category Middle Devonian)
The Givetian is one of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Period. It lasted from 387.95 million years ago to 382.31 million years ago. It was preceded...
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Acadian orogeny (category Devonian orogenies)
long-lasting mountain building event which began in the Middle Devonian, reaching a climax in the Late Devonian. It was active for approximately 50 million years...
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Rutoceratid nautiloid from the middle Devonian of the United States Lorieroceras was a bizarre oncocerid nautiloid from the Devonian that possessed a helically...
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Conodont biostratigraphy (section Middle Devonian)
by the Emsian, which lasts until the Middle Devonian begins, 393.3± 2.7 million years ago. The Middle Devonian comprises two subdivisions, the Eifelian...
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(2004). "Diplacanthid acanthodians from the Aztec Siltstone (late Middle Devonian) of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica". Fossils and Strata. 50: 23–43...
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evolution of fishes. The Devonian period is broken into the Early, Middle and Late stages. By the start of the Early Devonian 419 mya, jawed fishes had...
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Tetrapod (category Middle Devonian first appearances)
from the Middle Devonian, and body fossils became common near the end of the Late Devonian, around 370–360 million years ago. These Devonian species all...
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Eastmanosteus (category Middle Devonian fish)
in many parts of the world in marine sediments dating from the Middle to Late Devonian. They were medium-to-large fish, with specimens E. pustulosus and...
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Australian Devonian corals in the Wade Collection. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 25, 141–151. Hill, D., 1940. The Middle Devonian rugose...
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Kolihapeltis (category Middle Devonian genus extinctions)
Kolihapeltis is a genus of trilobite that lived from the Early Devonian to the Middle Devonian. Its remains have been found in Africa and Europe. Evolving...
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Orcadian Basin (category Devonian paleontological sites)
lithostratigraphic terms lower, middle and upper ORS, however, do not necessarily match exactly with sediments of lower, middle and upper Devonian age, as the base of...
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Mesacanthus (category Middle Devonian cartilaginous fish)
Mesacanthus ('middle spine') is an extinct genus of acanthodian fish from Devonian Scotland. It is among the more primitive of the Devonian acanthodians...
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body. Fossils are known from the Lower Silurian and Middle Devonian of Scotland, and the Upper Devonian of Canada. In particular, Euphanerops is unique in...
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taxon that became extinct at the end of the Paleozoic). In the early–middle Devonian (416–385 Ma), while the predatory placoderms dominated the seas, some...
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Mcmurdodus (category Middle Devonian cartilaginous fish)
Mcmurdodontidae. It contains one species, Mcmurdodus featherensis, from the Middle Devonian of Antarctica. The Australian species M. whitei was previously included...
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the Middle Devonian of Wisconsin. Brachiopod casts in the Lock Haven Formation Hercosestria cribrosa Cooper & Grant 1969 (Roadian, Guadalupian, Middle Permian);...
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Wattieza (category Middle Devonian plants)
revealed in 2007) in Schoharie County, New York, of fossils from the Middle Devonian about 385 million years ago united the crown of Wattieza to a root...
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group evolved from elpistostegalian fish in the late Devonian, or possibly in the middle Devonian. They continued to thrive as denizens of swampland and...
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Laccognathus (category Middle Devonian sarcopterygians)
fish from Europe and North America. They existed from the Middle Devonian to the Late Devonian (around 397.5 to 360 mya). The name comes from Greek for...
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Camerata (crinoid) (category Middle Devonian first appearances)
Camerata Temporal range: Middle Ordovician–Late Permian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Rhodocrinus serpens, a sea lily of the family Rhodocrinidae, 16mm measured...
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Marcellus Formation (category Middle Devonian Series)
The Marcellus Formation or the Marcellus Shale is a Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock found in eastern North America. Named for a distinctive...
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the Middle Devonian. To the north of the Vordertaunus is the Taunuscrest, also known as the High Taunus, which mainly consists of Lower Devonian clastic...
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Elpistostegalia (category Middle Devonian first appearances)
appear in the late Middle Devonian or in the early Late Devonian. However, a series of trace fossils from the early Middle Devonian of Poland suggests...
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Pteraspis (category Middle Devonian genus extinctions)
heterostracan jawless fish. It lived from the Lochkovian to Eifelian epochs of the Devonian period in what is now Brazil (Eifelian Maecuru Formation), Britain (Lochkovian...
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