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  2. Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Artist interpretation of a Devonian swamp forest scene. Artwork by Eduard Riou from The World Before the Deluge 1872. The Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution, also known as the Devonian Plant Explosion (DePE) [1] and the Devonian explosion, was a period of rapid colonization, diversification and radiation of land plants and fungi on dry lands that occurred 428 to 359 million years ago ...

  3. Late Devonian extinction - Wikipedia

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    During the Late Silurian and Devonian, land plants, assisted by fungi, [45] [46] underwent a hugely significant phase of evolution known as the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution. [47] [48] Their maximum height went from 30 cm at the start of the Devonian, to 30 m archaeopterids, [49] at the end of the period.

  4. Silurian - Wikipedia

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    The Silurian period was once believed to have enjoyed relatively stable and warm temperatures, in contrast with the extreme glaciations of the Ordovician before it and the extreme heat of the ensuing Devonian; however, it is now known that the global climate underwent many drastic fluctuations throughout the Silurian, [27] [28] evidenced by ...

  5. Late Ordovician mass extinction - Wikipedia

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    The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes known as the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history, occurring roughly 445 million years ago (Ma). [1]

  6. Devonian - Wikipedia

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    The Devonian (/ d ə ˈ v oʊ n i. ən, d ɛ-/ də-VOH-nee-ən, deh-) [9] [10] is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at 419.62 million years ago (), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at 358.86 Ma.

  7. List of extinction events - Wikipedia

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    Serpukhovian extinction ~ 325 Ma Onset of the Late Paleozoic icehouse: Devonian: Hangenberg event: 359 Ma Anoxia, possibly related to the Famennian glaciation or volcanic activity, Supernova [35] Late Devonian extinction (Kellwasser event) 372 Ma Viluy Traps [36] [37] [38] Woodleigh Impactor? [2] Taghanic Event ~384 Ma Anoxia Kačák Event ~388 ...

  8. Prehistoric climate change damaged the ozone layer and led to ...

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    My colleagues and I have published new research on the mass extinction that took place 359 million years ago at the boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous geological periods.

  9. Llandovery Epoch - Wikipedia

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    The Llandoverian Epoch follows the massive Ordovician-Silurian extinction events, which led to a large decrease in biodiversity and an opening up of ecosystems. Widespread reef building started in this period and continued into the Devonian Period when rising water temperatures are thought to have bleached out the coral by killing their photo ...