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Ordovician Period

Paleozoic Era

How Long did the Ordovician Period Last?

The Ordovician Period lasted almost 45 million years, the second shortest period in the Paleozoic Era

How long did the Ordovician Period last?

what to wear

During the Lower and Middle Ordovician it is recommended to bring scuba gear (most of Earth was water) and shorts ( whenever you were on land, the climate was warmer.

what to expect in the Ordovician period

ways of knowing that your in the Ordovician period

How to know your in the Ordovician period

if you were to see a huge continent moving closer to the south pole (not like its exactly possible), or seeing the supercontinent settle in the South pole, or even see glaciers first form on the supercontinent, your in the Ordovician period

Formations

Formations formed during the Ordovician Period

During the Middle Ordovician the tectonic plates move and set the stage for the mountains to be created. These mountains would later be known as the Appalachian Mountains.

4 animals that lived in the Ordovician period

Animals in the Ordovician period

The Trilobite is the most well known animal that survived many periods in the Paleozoic Era. Another animal is the Graptolite, they look like a jellyfish.a familiar looking animal is the Brachiopod, which looks exactly like a clam but is not. the final one is the conodont. It resembles that of an eel.

Plants of the Ordovician Period

plants in the Ordovician Period

The two main plants that lived in the Ordovcian age were the Coral, which we still have today, and red & green algae,which we still have today

First animals to appear during this period

Blastoids, Byrozoans, Corals, many kinds of Brachiopods, snails, clams, and cephalopods first appeared in the Ordovician Period.

first Organisms to appear in the Ordovician

organisms that died

Organisms that died during the mass extiction of the Ordovician period

All of the major groups of the Ordovician Period survived, such as the trilobites, brachiopods, coral, crinoids and graptolites, but all of them lost important members. Some families of Trilobites disappeared completely and some of the graptolites almost went completely extinct.

Map of Earth during Ordovician age

Earth back then...

Cool animals from Ordovician

More pictures of Ordovician animals

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