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Hagfishes are primitive, jawless fish.
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Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins...
Adapted from C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
The stratigraphic chart of geologic time.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Source: International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Source: International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins...
Adapted from C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
Infographic showing evidence of submerged continents that formed and broke up during...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
An early Silurian Pentamerus community.
From E. Winson in W.S. McKerrow (ed.), The Ecology of Fossils, Gerald Duckworth & Company Ltd
An early Silurian coral-stromatoporoid community.
From E. Winson in W.S. McKerrow (ed.), The Ecology of Fossils, Gerald Duckworth & Company Ltd
Halysites catenularia, middle Silurian in age, collected from the Lockport...
Courtesy of the Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, N.Y.
Niagara Falls is one of the most famous natural sites in North America. Thousands...
© Howard Sandler/Fotolia
Interbedded shales and wackes in sedimentary rock of the Silurian Period, Lower Silurian...
Courtesy of K.A.W. Crook, the Australian National University, Canberra
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