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What marked the end of the Paleozoic Era?
-Permian extinction
Paleozoic Era, also spelled Palaeozoic, major interval of geologic time that began 541 million years ago with the Cambrian explosion, an extraordinary diversification of marine animals, and ended about 252 million years ago with the end-Permian extinction, the greatest extinction event in Earth history.
What started the Ordovician period?
485.4 (+/- 1.9) million years ago
Ordovician/Began
When did the Ordovician period start and end?
485.4 (+/- 1.9) million years ago – 443.8 (+/- 1.5) million years ago
Ordovician/Occurred
What event marks the end of the Ordovician period?
The end of the Ordovician was heralded by a mass extinction, the second largest in Earth’s history. (The largest mass extinction took place at the end of the Permian Period and resulted in the loss of about 90 percent of existing species; see also Permian extinction.)
Which event occurred at the end of the Paleozoic era?
The Paleozoic Era ended with the largest extinction event in the history of Earth, the Permian–Triassic extinction event. The effects of this catastrophe were so devastating that it took life on land 30 million years into the Mesozoic Era to recover. Recovery of life in the sea may have been much faster.
How did the Paleozoic Era get its name?
The term ‘Paleozoic’ has been derived from Greek words: palaios meaning ‘ancient’ and zoe meaning ‘life’. This era spans around 200 million years from about 542 to 252 M.A. (million years ago), and is the largest one in terms of time-span. It’s the first era of the Phanerozoic Eon, marking the beginning of life on our planet.
How did the Paleozoic era end for marine life?
Paleozoic Era ended with the largest of the five mass extinctions of species, with 96% marine life and 70% terrestrial land life erased from the face of the planet. The middle of the Paleozoic Era faced the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event which wiped out 60% of marine life.
How did the Permian period end the Paleozoic era?
The Permian Geological Period ended – along with the Paleozoic Era – by a mass extinction event that erased 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial land species. This is known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event and it took 30 million years for natural life to recover from this disastrous extinction.