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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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Which came first the Jurassic or Triassic period of geologic time?

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What is a description of the Paleozoic era?

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What period came after the Cambrian period?

The Ordovician period came after the Cambrian period.


What came after the Ordovician period?

The Silurian period followed the Ordovician period.


The carboniferous time period came in which era?

paleozoic


What mark did the carboniferous period end?

The Dinosaurs came


Did any plants become extinct during the Carboniferous period?

There is no doubt of it. There were probably millions of plant species that came and went during the Carboniferous.


What period did the continents move together to form Pangaea?

Pangaea came together over a period of time spanning the Carboniferous and Permian periods. It broke up mostly during the Jurassic period.


What group of vertebrates begins life in water ans later lives on land?

Amphibians were the first vertebrates that came out of the water. The first vertebrates that could live outside of the water though were reptiles. or class reptilia this was during the Carboniferous period.


What are the Pennsylvanian and mississippian periods called together?

The Pennsylvanian and Mississippian periods can be best explained by the carboniferous system which is divided into a number of sections. The division came from the North America stratigraphy.


What came first the Mesolithic or the Paleolithic period?

The Paleolithic period came first, followed by the Mesolithic period. The Paleolithic period is characterized by the use of stone tools, while the Mesolithic period marks the transition to more advanced hunting and gathering techniques.


Are birds and mammals decended from a common ancestor?

Mammals came before birds. The first mammals lived in the Triassic and the first birds lived in the Jurassic.


What period came first Jurassic cretaceous or triassic?

jurassic The Triassic was the earliest period of the Mesozoic, followed by the Jurassic then the Cretaceous. The Cretaceous was of the greatest duration.


What came first the chink or the egg?

The chicken.....Period.....