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Paleozoic Life in the Seas • Environmental variables to watch – Sea level – Positions of land and sea (continents & oceans) – Climate • Patterns of diversity • Mass extinctions • Cast of characters 1 The “Sepksoski Curve” From Sepkoski, Paleobiology, 1982 2 The Big 5 Mass Extinctions 3 4 From Alroy et al. PNAS (2001) 5 6 7 Cambrian Period 543 - 490 million years ago 8 Cambrian Trilobites 9 Archaeocyathids Cambrian seascape, painting by Zdenek Burian, ca. 1960 10 Ordovician Period 490 to 443 Million Years Ago 11 Ordovician Brachiopods Brachiopods, Ordovician, Ohio Ordovician Corals Rugose Tabulate www.humboldt.edu/~natmus/Exhibits/Life_time/Ordovician.web/55b.jpg 12 Maclurites at Crown Point, Lake Champlain, NY Leviceraurus Asaphus Ordovician Trilobites Isotelus 13 The largest known trilobite Isotelus rex, Late Ordovician, northern Manitoba Triarthrus, Ordovician, New York 14 Kentucky Ordovician Nautiloids Ohio Minnesota 15 Giant nautiloid Rayonnoceras solidiforme Mississippian, Fayetteville, ARK 16 Ordovician crinoids www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/ farabee/BIOBK/1ord04b.gif Ordovician vertebrates Harding Sandstone, Utah 17 www.karencarr.com/images/Gallery / gallery_ordovician.jpg Ordovician seascape Ordovician seascape www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/link/images/ hist_img_03_ordo.jpg 18 Ordovician seascape http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ordovician/ordovicsea.gif Ordovician seascape www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/1ord04b.gif 19 Silurian Period 443 to 417 Million Years Ago 20 Bumastus Arctinurus Silurian Trilobites Dalmanites Eurypterids (sea scorpions) 21 http://www.karencarr.com/images/Detail/detail_silurian.jpg 22 23 Silurian seascape Painting by Zdenek Burian Devonian Period 417 to 354 Million Years Ago 24 Devonian Brachiopods 25 Odontochile formosa Phacops rana Devonian Trilobites Dipleura dekayi Greenops Terataspis Devonian Rugose Corals 26 www.fallsoftheohio.org/virtualtour/images/FALLS4.JPG www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Devonian/ Images/dev16b.jpg Devonian seascapes www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/dev15b.gif “The Age of Fishes” Placoderms Acanthodians Sharks 27 “The Age of Fishes” Dunkleosteus 28 Carboniferous Period 354 to 290 Million Years Ago 29 Carboniferous Crinoids 30 Carboniferous Corals Rugose Tabulate Permian Period 290 to 248 Million Years Ago 31 Permian reef 32 33.

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