CHAPTER 12 LIFE OF THE PALEOZOIC
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Paleozoic Animals
Marine Invertebrates
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Animals With Shells
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Anomalocaris
Paleozoic Life
FISHES
Fishes – 5 Groups Ostracoderms – End of Cambrian –Jawless Placoderms – Silurian –Plate Skinned Acanthodians – Silurian –Non-armored jawed Osteichthyes – Devonian –Bony Chondrichthyes – Devonian –Cartilaginous
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Living Fossil – Onset Devonian Coelacanth
Bony Fish
Devonian Shark - Cladoselache Sharks
Devonian Placoderm - Dunkleosteus Placoderms
Conodont – Valuable Index Fossil
Amphibians – “Tetrapods”
Amphibians Descended from fish – “Ichthyostega” –Ampibian Group “Labyrinthodonts”
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Movement to Land “Amiotes”
Amiotes Egg Laying Animals –Reptiles –Birds –Mammals
Reptiles
REPTILES
Reptiles Earliest Reptiles – Synapsids Pelycosaurs: A member of the Synapsid Family that possessed reptile and mammal characteristics.
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Mammals
Descended from Synapsids –Pelycosaurs This group known as Therapsids – –Cynodonts
Therapsids Cynodonts Mammal-Like Reptiles
PLANTS
Paleozoic Plants
Crinoids Marine Plants
Crinoid
Bryophytes (Nonvascular) –Seedless, Spore-Bearing plants –Common in Coal-Forming Plants of Carboniferous. Trachophytes (Vascular) –Gymnosperms –Seed-Producing Pollinating Land Plants
Bryophytes Nonvascular Plant
Vascular Plant Trachophytes
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Early Conifers
Paleozoic Extinctions
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Late Ordovician Extinction Related to Global Cooling 2 Sequences (Regressive & Transgressive) Late Devonian –Eutrophication “Anoxic Conditions” –Continental Glaciation Late Permian
Late Devonian Extinction Eutrophication “Anoxic Conditions” Continental Glaciation
Late Permian Extinction Global Cooling –Pangea Completed Epicontinental Seas Drained Equatorial Circulation Blocked –Volcanic Activity –Extraterrestrial Cause Asteroid
Anoxic Conditions Linked to slowing of ocean circulation, climatic warming and elevated levels of greenhouse gases. Researchers have proposed enhanced volcanism (the release of CO 2 ) as the "central external trigger for euxinia". [5] greenhouse gasesvolcanism [5]
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