Paleozoic Era
The paleozoic era was nearly 544 million years ago. Many new life events and geologic events happend in this time, so lets get started!!
Ancient Continets
544 million years ago a supercontinent named Gondwana existed south of the equater and was made up of present day Africa , South America,Australlia,Antarctica and India subcontinent
Ice Caps
An ice cap covered North America 505 million years ago. Ice cap use to cover all of north america making land freezing.
Appalachain Mountains
The appalanchain mountains were formed a whopping 360 million years ago. At this time the North America and Europe lands combined.
Pangaea forms
All the continets drifted together to finally form one huge continent called Pangea. Pangaea was formed 280 million years ago. Pangea is the super continent of all of the continents. Alfred Wegner came up with this theory.
Vertebrates Arise
Vertebrates appeared 500 million years ago. Vertebrates such as jawless fish arise. They are the first vertebrates on earth.
Plants on land
Plants on land formed 475 million years ago. The first flowering plants were similar to the magnolia flower.
Lung fish
Lung fish arose 416 million years ago. Lung fish were the very first vertebrates to crawl on land.
Insects
The first insect appeared on earth 400 million years ago. The Devonian is the first winged insect to appear on land.
Amphibians
Amphibians came to earth an amazing 360 million years ago. The oldest and first amphibians to appear were lungfish.
Paleozoic mass extinction
The Paleozoic Mass Extinction happened 245 million years ago. This mass extinction killed plants and animals both on land and sea.