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4 days ago · The fossil record from the Cambrian period (539–485 million years ago) shows the sudden emergence of a plethora of new species, including all the major body plans of animals we still see...
3 days ago · The Carboniferous (/ ˌ k ɑːr b ə ˈ n ɪ f ər ə s / KAR-bə-NIF-ər-əs) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period 358.9 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 Ma.
2 days ago · Permian Period, in geologic time, the last period of the Paleozoic Era. The Permian Period began 298.9 million years ago and ended 252.2 million years ago, extending from the close of the Carboniferous Period to the outset of the Triassic Period.
5 days ago · Pangea existed between about 299 million years ago (at the start of the Permian Period of geological time) to about 180 million years ago (during the Jurassic Period). It remained in its fully assembled state for some 100 million years before it began to break up.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
6 days ago · The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period .
3 days ago · Ediacara biota appeared during the Ediacaran period, while vertebrates, along with most other modern phyla originated about during the Cambrian explosion. During the Permian period, synapsids , including the ancestors of mammals , dominated the land.
3 days ago · During the Cambrian period Shropshire contained the shoreline of a still widening Iapetus Ocean, and the rocks of that period are mainly a shallow-water marine sequence. Like the Pre-Cambrian rocks, the Cambrian rocks are closely associated with the major fault systems running through the coalfield.
