Silurian Period: Media

geochronology

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Observe the hagfish's horny teeth and scaleless exterior covering a cartilaginous skeleton
Hagfishes are primitive, jawless fish.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Silurian paleogeography
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins...
Adapted from C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
geologic time
The stratigraphic chart of geologic time.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Source: International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
Silurian Period
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Source: International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
Early Silurian distribution of landmasses
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins...
Adapted from C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
paleocontinent
Infographic showing evidence of submerged continents that formed and broke up during...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Silurian Pentamerus community
An early Silurian Pentamerus community.
From E. Winson in W.S. McKerrow (ed.), The Ecology of Fossils, Gerald Duckworth & Company Ltd
Silurian coral-stromatoporoid community
An early Silurian coral-stromatoporoid community.
From E. Winson in W.S. McKerrow (ed.), The Ecology of Fossils, Gerald Duckworth & Company Ltd
Halysites catenularia
Halysites catenularia, middle Silurian in age, collected from the Lockport...
Courtesy of the Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, N.Y.
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is one of the most famous natural sites in North America. Thousands...
© Howard Sandler/Fotolia
shales and wackes
Interbedded shales and wackes in sedimentary rock of the Silurian Period, Lower Silurian...
Courtesy of K.A.W. Crook, the Australian National University, Canberra
plant evolution
Significant events in plant evolution.
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