The Ordovician period, around 485-443 million years ago, was characterized by a warmer climate with high sea levels and diverse marine life. It was a time of rapid evolution and diversification of marine organisms, including the first appearance of jawless fish. The atmosphere likely had higher levels of carbon dioxide compared to today.
The Ordovician Period had a warm and humid climate, with most landmasses clustered near the South Pole. The seas were filled with a diverse range of marine life, including early fish and invertebrates. The period ended with a mass extinction event that wiped out around 60% of marine genera.
The Ordovician lasted for 47 million years from 490 to 443 Million Years Ago.
During the Ordovician period, the supercontinent Gondwana was the largest landmass on Earth. Gondwana included parts of present-day Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, and the Indian subcontinent.
The Ordovician period came first. It started 485.4 million years ago and finished 443.8 million years ago. Then came the Silurian and Devonian periods, followed at 358.9 million years ago by the Carboniferous.
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The Silurian period followed the Ordovician period.
The Ordovician period came after the Cambrian period.
The Ordovician period follows the extinction at the end of the Cambrian period.
Ordovician Period
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Ordovician period
The Ordovician Period had a warm and humid climate, with most landmasses clustered near the South Pole. The seas were filled with a diverse range of marine life, including early fish and invertebrates. The period ended with a mass extinction event that wiped out around 60% of marine genera.
470 million years ago was in the Ordovician Period (488.3 - 443.7 Ma).Phanerozoic Eon (542 Ma - Now)Paleozoic Era (542 - 251Ma)Ordovician Period (488.3 - 443.7Ma)Middle Ordovician Epoch (471.8 - 460.9Ma)Dapingian Age (471.8 - 468.1Ma)
Ordovician Period
The formation of the oxygen atmosphere on Earth occurred about 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxidation Event in the Proterozoic Eon. This period marked a significant increase in atmospheric oxygen levels due to the photosynthetic activity of early cyanobacteria.
The Ordovician lasted for 47 million years from 490 to 443 Million Years Ago.
Algae was the dominant plant of the Ordovician. There were little to no other plants (other then algae) during the Ordovician. In the Ordovician, the common types of algae were Stromatolites (Blue green algae), and Tetradium (Red algae).