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Explain why the Devonian Period is commonly called the Age of Fishes?
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the Devonian Period is commonly called the Age of Fishes because it was the time where the first boney fishes fossil were discovered
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Which period was called the age of fishes?
The Devonian Period
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How did the period get its name?
well, female has her "period" and a person called it period because it was the end of a females child life and you know a period at the end of a sentence and that's how period got its name lol
Why is this period so important to the world?
What period
What time period was considered The Age of Fishes?
The Devonian Period
What was the period known as the age of fishes?
the Devonian Period was know to be the period that was the age of the fishes
Which period was called the age of fishes?
The Devonian Period
What period in the paleozoic era was the age of fishes?
The Devonian is known as the Age of Fishes.
What era did fishes appear?
the palezoic and the period is devonian!! your welcome!
Which period is known as the age of fishes?
The Devonian Period from 417 Million years ago to 354 Million years ago. The time period was known as the Age of Fishes because of the thousands of species of fish that developed in the sea.
Why was the Silurian period named the silirian?
The Devonian was the geological time period that followed the Silurian.
What is the period after Devonian Period known as?
The period after the Devonian Period (416 to 359.2Ma) is the Carboniferous Period (359.2 to 299Ma).
What period did animals first begin to invade the land?
If you mean animals as in insects (arthropods), they came in around the Devonian period of the Paleozoic era If you mean animals as in fish, amphibians etc then they came in at the same time as the arthropods
When in the devonian period were fish developed?
Fish first appeared in the Cambrian period, long before the Devonian.
What is the geological time scale for fishes?
Fish first appeared in the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era, around 500 million years ago. Fish became the dominant animal lifeform in the seas in the Devonian Period of the Paleozoic which is known as the "Age of Fishes", roughly 300 million years ago.
What time period was the Devonian time period?
The Devonian period lasted from 416 million years ago to 359.2 million years ago.
