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Is the Devonian time before or after the mass extinction?
Which mass extinction? There have been five such events. The first one, the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event occurred before the Devonian. The Late Devonian event occurred during the Devonian. All other mass extinctions occurred after the Devonian.
What caused the Devonian Extinction?
Evidence leads most paleontologists to believe the Devonian mass extinction event to be caused by global cooling, triggered by a glaciation event on Godwana. A less-proven theory states the extinction could have also been caused by meteoric impact.Background Info:After the Ordovician mass extinction event around 440 - 450 million years ago, surviving groups of species continued to diversify evolutionarily into what became the Silurian and Devonian periods.The Devonian period spanned from 408-360 million years ago, in which came the first sharks, bony fish, and ammonoids (a type of predatory mollusk) in the ocean, as well as terrestrial amphibians, insects, and true land plants.
What caused the Devonian mass extinction?
No one knows for sure. Some people believe that an asteroid earlier in time hit Earth and caused massive climate change that killed off reptiles, but spared dinosaurs. Others believe that it was simply climate change.
What were the 5 major extinction events in earth history?
They are the end-Ordovician extinction, end-Devonian extinction, end-Permian extinction, the Triassic extinction, end-Cretaceous extinction.
What are the extinction of animals in the very distant past?
There were five major extinction events in the past. They are called the Cretaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) extinction event, the late Devonian mass extinction, the Permian mass extinction, the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction and the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event.
When was the last time a comet hit earth and caused an extinction?
The Cretaceous Paleogene extinction event about 65 million years ago.
What time period was considered The Age of Fishes?
The Devonian Period
What are facts about the devonian period?
The Devonian Period is a part of the Paleozoic Era, which covers the time from 541 to 252.17 million years ago. It began with the Cambrian explosion, in which most phyla of life began, and ended with the mass extinction called the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
Itmay have crashed into earth and caused a mass extinction a long time ago?
asteroid
What is another name for the Devonian period?
I have never known it to be called anything but "The Devonian", but one might speculate it could be called "The First Flowering", as the Devonian was when there was the first massive increase in sea creatures, as well as the first heavy vegetation on the surface of earth. The Devonian ended with a mass extinction event that is still not understood. There is some discussion of the "Alamo Impact Event" being connected with it, but most scientists believe that was too small, and too far before the mass extinction (3.5 million years) to have been the cause.
What the earth look like in the devonian time period?
During the devonian time period most of land was under water.
Relationship between extinct and mass extinction?
Mass extinction is when many animals go extinct within a short period of time caused by the same variables/factors leading to the mass extinction.
