Life in the Palaeozoic
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 The Cambrian explosion
    • 1.1 A burst of evolution
    • 1.2 The Burgess Shale
    • 1.3 An overview of animal phyla
    • 1.4 The origin of the vertebrates
  • 2 The Ordovician seas
  • 3 The Silurian Period and the invasion of the land
  • 4 Life in the Silurian sea
    • 4.1 Trilobites
      • 4.1.1 More on trilobites
    • 4.2 Crinoids
    • 4.3 Corals
    • 4.4 Other Wenlock Limestone fossils
  • 5 The Devonian Period
  • 6 Vertebrates move onto land
    • 6.1 A difficult evolutionary transition
    • 6.2 An outline of vertebrate evolution
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements

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