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Silurian

noun
1.
From 425 million to 405 million years ago; first air-breathing animals.  Synonym: Silurian period.





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... same kind may be found in every sub-kingdom. The 'Globigerina' of the Atlantic soundings is identical with that which occurs in the chalk; and the casts of lower silurian 'Foraminifera', which Ehrenberg has recently described, seem to indicate the existence at that remote period of forms singularly like those which now exist. Among the corals, the palaeozoic 'Tabulata' are constructed on precisely the ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley


Words linked to "Silurian" :   period, Paleozoic era, Paleozoic, Silurian period, geological period


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