Ordovician+by+thecatlady

THE ORDOVICIAN TIME PERIOD
Introduction Before the [|Ordovician] time period was the Cambrian time period where the Cambrian explosion happened and a lot of new organisms appeared on the  Earth in a very short amount of time. By very short amount of time, I don't mean in 5 minutes. I mean a few thousand to million years. After my time period is the Silurian which is where the very first land animals and plants  appeared. This was something major for Earth. My time period is the Ordovician time period. In my time period, a lot of new interesting things <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">happen. Such as, giant scorpions rule the Earth and the first real vertebrates <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> appear on Earth! Also, // <range type="comment" id="40642">Pangea // is starting to come together. //<range type="comment" id="364398">Pangea// is what the  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">continents looked like all squished together before the separate continents  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">and how they look like today. <span style="color: #ff0300; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Abiotic**

==<span style="color: #ff1f00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the Ordovician time period, there were many different landforms. //Gondwana// was one of the giant continents that drifted along the ocean during the Ordovician time period. (the other super continent was //Laurasia)// //Gondwana// was drifting south and was in the process of crashing with //Laurasia.// == ==<span style="color: #ff1f00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> North America actually happened to be in south of Laurasia. AndMassachusetts is in North America so... Massachusetts was is Laurasia during the Ordovician. Most of everything was underwater BUT the land was starting to surface! Shallow lagoons and little pools were starting to emerge.The <span style="color: #ff2300; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">climate 490-443 million years ago was warm, wet and humid/tropical. Most of the tectonic activity happened around the area where what is now know as New England was. <range type="comment" id="956616">Some even believe that the tectonic activity in the Mesozoic Era might've been the cause for Pangea to form. ==

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<span style="color: #3fbd32; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Today, there are fossils found from this time period in Southeast Indiana, Ohio, and in Kentucky. There are other places where they can be located but these are the most recent discoveries. The people that discovered those findings found many rocks and fossils. As I said before, most of Earth was underwater but it was emerging. So most of the landform is underwater although there are little strips of land already surfaced. Many rocks from this time period can be recovered in the <range type="comment" id="372723">middle of the United States. =====

= Biotic =

== Life on this Earth during this era didn't have many many species but it did have a lot of new species that the Cambrian hadn't seen before. We had [|Trilobites], Giant sea scorpions,[|Cephalopods], [|Jawless fish], and other aquatic organisms. The life form that ruled the Earth at that time were the [|Giant Sea Scorpions], otherwise known as //Jaekelopterus rhenaniae// or //Eurypterid.They// ruled the Earth being 8 feet long fully grown. Eurypterid was a carnivore and ate everything in its way. The jawless fish was one of the newer species on the planet and it was one of the first fully evolved vertebrates. The jawless fish mostly fed on algae, prehistoric underwater plants and bacteria. <range type="comment" id="625461">As I said, not many new creatures appeared on the Earth during the Ordovician but this was the beginning that evolved into something bigger... ==

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