What was the environment like compared to the environment of the Silurian Period?

Answer 1

There were continents and oceans as we have them now but they were not in the positions they now there were probably just two , Gondwanda and Euramerica.

During the Silurian, Gondwana made a slow southward drift to high southern latitudes, but there is evidence for Silurian icecaps Euramerica was located near the equator A vast ocean called Panthalassa covered most of the northern hemisphere. Other minor oceans include the Proto-Tethys and Paleo-Tethy, the Rheic Ocean, a seaway of the Iapetus Ocean and the newly formed Ural Ocean. During this period, the Earth entered a long warm greenhouse phase, and warm shallow seas covered much of the equatorial land masses. Early in the Silurian, glaciers retreated back into the South Pole until they almost disappeared in the middle of Silurian. The period witnessed a relative stabilization of the Earth's general climate, ending the previous pattern of erratic climatic fluctuations. Layers of broken shells (called coquina) provide strong evidence of a climate dominated by violent storms generated then as now by warm sea surfaces. The Silurian also saw the first extensive colonisation of the land by plants and we first period to see macrofossils of extensive terrestrial biota, in the form of moss forests along lakes and streams. Otherwise the land would have appeared bare of life.

The first fossil records of vascular plants, that is, land plants with tissues that carry food, appeared in the second half of the Silurian period.

Answer 2

This environment, as you can all see is either dry or wet, but the sularian time was a mostly wet because there were mainly sea animals.