Silurian Period: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Gotlandian Period

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Silurian paleogeography

A detailed geologic time scale chart displaying Earth's history from the Hadean Eon over 4.5 billion years ago to the present, organized by eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages with color-coded columns and corresponding dates in millions of years.

A geologic time scale chart showing the Silurian period of the Paleozoic era, listing its epochs and stages with corresponding ages in millions of years ago, from 443.8 to 419.2 million years ago.

Early Silurian distribution of landmasses

Infographic showing the locations and timelines of ancient and submerged continents including Mauritia and Zealandia on modern maps, and paleocontinents Rodinia, Laurentia, Pangea, and Gondwana on reconstructed ancient Earth maps, with explanatory text about their formation and breakup.

Silurian Pentamerus community

Illustration of an early Silurian coral-stromatoporoid community showing various labeled marine organisms, including corals, bryozoans, brachiopods, crinoids, trilobites, and a nautiloid, arranged on and around a block of seafloor substrate with a scale bar indicating centimeters.

Halysites catenularia

shales and wackes

Observe the hagfish's horny teeth and scaleless exterior covering a cartilaginous skeleton

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