The initial radiation of vascular land plants, evidenced by increases in both diversity and morphological disparity during ...

Graptolites show us how unpredictable the Silurian period really could be. 11/21/2023 ... The Lau or Kozlowski Event in the late Silurian wiped out 70% of the graptolite species, ...

WASHINGTON D.C., Oct. 20, 2016 (Xinhua) - This illustration shows Qilinyu, a 423-million-year-old ... More fish from the Kuanti Formation (late Ludlow, Silurian). Paleontologists from China and ...

Ischnacanthids have been identified from many sites globally that date from the Late Silurian Period (about 420 million years ago) to the Late Devonian Period (380 - 350 million years ago). Fossil ...

A decade ago, researchers set out to systematically survey the 425-million-year-old rocks of the late Silurian period in China, said Gai Zhikun, a paleontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

A newly discovered fossil “treasure hoard” dating back some 436 million years to the early Silurian period reveals, for the first time, the complete body shape and form of some of the first ...

By the end of the Silurian period about 416 million years ago, ... was inhabited by diverse invertebrates by the Late Silurian and during the Devonian, ...

But that wasn’t the case. In a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers found that major bioturbation did not occur until at least 120 million years later, during the late ...

In recent years, paleontologists have found scales and other bits that suggest the presence of jawed fish during the Silurian period, which lasted from 443.8 million to 419.2 million years ago.