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Biotic life during the Permian Time period

Since the Permian time period consisted of one of the biggest mass-extinctions, the biotic life was very different after things had settled. During this time period there were various types of life forms such as vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. The vertebrates living during this time consisted of reptiles such as Dimetrodons, scutosaurus, protosaurus, therapsids, lizards, snakes, gorgons and archosausrus and something new that began to appear, bony fish. The invertebrates living were arthropods, corals, centipedes, spiders, giant millipedes, scorpions and cockroaches. The ruler of the Permian was the synapsids, which were ancestors of the mammals. The organism that most dominated this time period were the reptiles, there were a couple of reptiles living such aquatic reptiles, ones that lived on the land, mammal like reptiles and warm blooded reptiles. Some of the plants that were living in this time were Gingko, Glossopteris trees, and Lebachia Piniformis a gymnosperm (produces seeds). There were also unicellular organisms such as algae and bacteria, but since life had become more complex, a lot of the organisms were muti-cellular. Although many of the living things went extinct during th e Permian, thankfully some organisms made it through especially the mammal-like animals because without them, we wouldn’t exist.





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