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Silurian Period, in geologic time, the third period of the Paleozoic Era. It began 443.8 million years ago and ended 419.2 million years ago, extending from the close of the Ordovician Period to the beginning of the Devonian Period.
10 Αυγ 2012 · During the Silurian period Earth's continents joined together, closing the Iapetus Ocean and forming two supercontinents: Laurasia in the north, and Gondwanaland to the south. The South American and southern African Gondwana plates moved slowly toward and then over the South Pole.
21 Νοε 2022 · Silurian Period—Timeline. On the geologic timescale, the Silurian Period is roughly 28 million years between the Ordovician and Devonian periods. It spanned from the end of the Ordovician about 444 million years ago to the beginning of the Devonian about 416 million years ago.
The Silurian was the first period to see megafossils of extensive terrestrial biota in the form of moss-like miniature forests along lakes and streams and networks of large, mycorrhizal nematophytes, heralding the beginning of the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution.
580 Start of break up of vast supercontinent which formed most of the Earth's continental landmass. The South American plate breaks away from the East coast of North America and begins its long journey South. Antarctica/India rifts away from Africa. 570 Start of Cambrian and Palaeozoic Era.
The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants finally emerge on land. But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician.
The Silurian (443.7 to 416.0 million years ago)* was a time when the Earth underwent considerable changes that had important repercussions for the environment and life within it. One result of these changes was the melting of large glacial formations.
