HISTORY OF EARTH

PALEOZOIC ERA

-A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE

ON EARTH

PRESENTED BY GROUP 2
HISTORY OF EARTH
IT IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLANET
EARTH FROM ITS FORMATION
TO THE PRESENT DAY.
THE 4 ERAS OF OUR PLANET EARTH:

PRECAMBRIAN ERA - "Age of Early Life". It is the earliest of the geologic ages, which
are marked by different layers of sedimentary rock.
PALEOZOIC ERA - "Ancient Life". It was a period of time in Earth’s history in which
drastic climatic and geological change occurred.
MESOZOIC ERA - "Age of Reptiles". It is the time of dinosaurs.
CENOZOIC ERA - "Age of Mammals". It was the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs
and the rise of mankind.
PRECAMBRIAN ERA MESOZOIC ERA

PALEOZOIC ERA CENOZOIC ERA

PALEOZOIC ERA
Paleozoic Era, also spelled Palaeozoic, major
interval of geologic time that began 541 million
years ago with the Cambrian explosion, an
extraordinary diversification of marine animals, and
ended about 252 million years ago with the end-
Permian extinction, the greatest extinction event in
Earth history.
 It was a period of time in
Earth’s history in which
drastic climatic and geological
change occurred. This era is
broken down into six distinct
periods: the Cambrian, the
Ordovician, the Silurian, the
Devonian, the Carboniferous
and the Permian.
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Did you know...

LONG BEFORE BIRDS EVOLVED, TETRAPODS

BEGAN LAYING EGGS ON LAND FOR THE FIRST
TIME DURING THIS PERIOD, ALLOWING THEM TO
BREAK AWAY FROM AN AMPHIBIOUS LIFESTYLE.
PICTURES IN THE TIME OF
PALEOZOIC ERA
The six periods of
Paleozoic Era
The Cambrian Period began
at the beginning of this era,
about 541 million years ago
and ended about 56 million
years later or about 485
million years ago.
Cambrian The time when most of the major
groups of animals first appear in the
fossil record.
Period
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 The Ordovician Period is a
time in which many
different kinds of organisms
began forming the familiar
biological classes that we
are all used to today.
Ordovician
Period
A rich variety of marine life flourished in the vast seas
and the first primitive plants began to appear on land

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 The Silurian Period ran from 443
million years ago to 419 million years
ago. During this period, life began to
rebound after the Ordovician–Silurian
Extinction Event and Earth began to go
from a cold, icy planet to a warmer
one.
Silurian
Period
A time when the Earth underwent considerable
changes that had important repercussions for the
environment and life within it.
 The fourth period of the
Paleozoic Era is known as the
Devonian Period. This period in
Earth history ran for
approximately 60 million years –
from 419 to 359 million years ago.
Devonian
Period
A time of extensive reef building in the shallow water
that surrounded each continent and separated
Gondwana from Euramerica.
The fifth period of the Paleozoic
Era is the Carboniferous Period.
This period lasted from 359 to
299 million years ago – or about
60 million years.
Carboniferous Part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its
name from large underground coal
deposits that date to it.

Period
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 Beginning about 299
million years ago and
ending approximately 252
million years ago, the
Permian Period was quite a
span of 48 million years.
Permian
Period
Earth's crustal plates formed a single, massive
continent called Pangaea. In the correspondingly
large ocean, Panthalassa, marine organisms such as
brachiopods, gastropods, cephalopods (nautiloids
and ammonoids), and crinoids were present. On land,
reptiles replaced amphibians in abundance.
Paleozoic
Era
The Paleozoic Era. The Paleozoic is bracketed by two of the
most important events in the history of animal life. At its
beginning, multicelled animals underwent a dramatic
"explosion" in diversity, and almost all living animal phyla
appeared within a few millions of years.
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