A mass extinction event/ice age marked the end of the Ordivician Period. The climate, location of landmasses, and number and diversity of species had changed dramatically since the beginning of the period. When the changes that were occurring during the mass extinction event leveled out, a new period began.
Coming out of the late Ordovician extinction due to large landmasses at the South Pole, the Silurian was a period of a warming environment, likely with large arid areas with high evaporation rates. Maybe look at Silurian paleogeography to get a better idea of what was going on to allow this.
It ended when Christ was born
Victorian Period
Sengoku period of Japanese history .
Silurian greywackes below the unconformity, Devonian red conglomerates/breccias and sandstones above.
Silurian Period
The Silurian period followed the Ordovician period.
The Devonian was the geological time period that followed the Silurian.
Yes, there were volcanoes present during the Silurian Period, but they were not as widespread or active as in some other periods. Volcanic activity during the Silurian likely contributed to changes in the Earth's climate and the composition of the atmosphere.
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Fossils from the Silurian Period are between 443.7 and 416 million years old.
Reef-building corals
Reef-building corals
The Silurian went from 443.4 ± 1.5mya to 419.2 ± 3.2mya. It spanned from the conclusion of the Ordovician period to the beginning of the Devonian period. However the exact time frame of the Silurian period is unknown and could be off by millions of years because of the fact that that period was set during a significant extinction event. Therefore, the Silurian period lasted about 42 million years, give or take.
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At that time, the area that is now Ohio was in the southern hemisphere near the equator.
In the paleozoic, more specifically the Silurian period. Liverworts had evolved by 472 million years ago, putting the very earliest land plants closer to the end of the Ordovician than at the beginning of the Silurian.