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    was the initial establishment of terrestrial life in what is known as the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution: vascular plants emerged from more...
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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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    colonization process, which had begun during the Silurian, is known as the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution. The earliest land animals, predominantly...
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  • the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution; the first woody ferns and the earliest seed plants evolved during this period. By the Middle Devonian, shrub-like...
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    extinction event. The "greening" of the continents during the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution that led to them being covered with massive photosynthesizing...
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  • Earth for over 420 million years, as long as terrestrial plants (Silurian-Devonian terrestrial revolution), humanity has altered its regimes and expanded...
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  • Rheic Ocean (category Silurian bodies of water)
    shelf during the Silurian, was a major hotspot of plant biodiversity during the early stages of the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution. The geologically...
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  • Hirnantian glaciation (category Silurian Africa)
    Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution. The later middle Ludfordian glaciation caused a sea level drop that created vast areas of new terrestrial habitats...
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    Great Oxidation Event Neoproterozoic oxygenation event Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution Holland, H. D. (2006). "The oxygenation of the atmosphere...
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  • Great Oxygenation Event Neoproterozoic oxygenation event Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution Oxygen cycle Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997)...
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    Great Oxidation Event Avalon explosion Cambrian explosion Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution Holland, Heinrich D. (19 May 2006). "The oxygenation of...
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    1999, SILURIAN: terrestrial life appears in the tropics, p. 148 Anderson et al. 1999, The First Extinction, p. 151 Anderson et al. 1999, The Silurian revolution...
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  • focusing on the origin of terrestrial communities during the late Paleozoic. A study on the mandibular morphology of Devonian to Permian stem and crown...
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    about 420 million years ago in the Silurian period. Attercopus fimbriunguis, from 386 million years ago in the Devonian period, bears the earliest known...
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    Paradox Basin of Utah. The evolution of plants following the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution and the subsequent adaptive radiation of vascular plants...
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    time that the terrestrial realm had largely been colonized which altered the global terrestrial weathering environment. By the late Devonian (~370 million...
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    Cambrian to Silurian" Retrieved 1 August 2007. Butler, Rob (2000) The Moine Thrust Belt. Leeds University. Retrieved 27 January 2006. "The Devonian Period...
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  • C. V.; Butcher, A.; Lovecchio, J. P. (2024). "Middle - Late Silurian and Early Devonian chitinozoans from the Chacoparaná Basin, Salta Province, Argentina"...
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    shales and Burgess Shale, the Ordovician Soom Shale, the Silurian Waukesha Biota, the Devonian Hunsrück Slates and Gogo Formation, the Carboniferous Mazon...
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    Marcellus Formation (category Devonian Canada)
    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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    biological families, 62% of genera, 81% of marine species, and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species. It is also the greatest known mass extinction of...
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    Hunsrück Slate (category Devonian System of Europe)
    The Hunsrück Slate (German: Hunsrück-Schiefer) is a Lower Devonian lithostratigraphic unit, a type of rock strata, in the German regions of the Hunsrück...
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    the Cambrian Period 486.85 Ma (million years ago) to the start of the Silurian Period 443.1 Ma. The Ordovician, named after the Welsh tribe of the Ordovices...
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    and later eurypterids such as Jaekelopterus during the Ordovician and Silurian periods. The first vertebrate carnivores appeared after the evolution of...
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    Z. H.; Jin, J. H.; Wang, D. H.; He, Y. X.; Quan, C. (2016-02-11). "Terrestrial responses of low-latitude Asia to the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition...
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  • numerous arthropods on coasts and alluvial plains shortly before the Silurian-Devonian boundary, about 415 Ma, including signs that some arthropods ate plants...
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    and trilobites. The armored fish Palaeaspis appeared during the Silurian. By the Devonian the state was home to other kinds of fishes. On land, some of...
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    during the Silurian are still found in the Mendip Hills and in Pembrokeshire. The collision between continents continued during the Devonian period, with...
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    processes. ↓GOE ↓End of Huronian glaciation Ediacaran Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Paleogene Neogene...
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    from the Silurian to Early Devonian West Virginia was home to corals, whose remains fossilized by silicification. During the Late Devonian the state's...
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