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A noteworthy feature of Paleozoic life is the sudden appearance of nearly all of the invertebrate animal phyla in great abundance at the beginning of the Cambrian. The first vertebrates appeared in the form of primitive fish, which greatly diversified in the Silurian and Devonian Periods. The first animals to venture onto dry land were the ...
Palaeozoology, also spelled as Paleozoology (Greek: παλαιόν, palaeon "old" and ζῷον, zoon "animal"), is the branch of paleontology, paleobiology, or zoology dealing with the recovery and identification of multicellular animal remains from geological (or even archeological) contexts, and the use of these fossils in the reconstruction of prehistoric environments and ancient ecosystems.
Lisowicia compared to a human. The plant-eating dicynodont Lisowicia bojani is the largest-known of all non-mammalian synapsids, at about 4.5 m (15 ft) long, 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) tall, and 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) in body mass.
With only a handful of species surviving today, the Nautiloids flourished during the early Paleozoic era, from the Late Cambrian, where they constituted the main predatory animals. [71] Haikouichthys , a jawless fish , is popularized as one of the earliest fishes and probably a basal chordate or a basal craniate . [ 72 ]
Paleozoic animals of Oceania (7 C, 5 P) S. Paleozoic animals of South America (13 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 10 January 2024, at 21:55 (UTC). ...
Rising steadily from 4 m to 90 m [ 4 ] The Cambrian (/ ˈkæmbri.ən, ˈkeɪm -/ KAM-bree-ən, KAYM-) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon. [ 5 ] The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran period 538.8 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Ordovician Period 485 ...
Paleozoic species extinctions (5 C) Paleozoic species first appearances (4 C) Permian species (2 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 31 October 2023, at 18 ...