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The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416. 0 ± 2. 8 Mya ( million years ago ), to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359. 2 ± 2. 5 Mya.
The Silurian is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician Period, about 443. 7 ± 1. 5 million years ago ( mya ), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, about 416. 0 ± 2. 8 mya.
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA ( 22 February 1792 – 22 October 1871 ) was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.
The result was the establishment of the Silurian system under which were grouped, for the first time, a remarkable series of formations, each replete with distinctive organic remains other than and very different from those of the other rocks of England.
The establishment of the Silurian system was followed by that of the Devonian system, an investigation in which Murchison assisted, both in the south-west of England and in the Rhineland.
The greater portion of the county of Dumfries belongs to the Silurian tableland of the south of Scotland which contains representatives of all the divisions of that system from the Arenig to the Ludlow rocks.
* Sir Roderick Murchison KCB FRS, Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.
* Roderick Murchison-geologist, originator of the Silurian system
* Silurian, the geological period and system lasting roughly from 445 million years ago to 415 million years ago

Silurian and was
The Ordovician, named after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices, was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in northern Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian periods respectively.
The Ordovician and Silurian periods were warm greenhouse periods, with the highest sea levels of the Paleozoic ( 200 m above today's ); the warm climate was interrupted only by a ~ 30 Ma cool period, the Early Palaeozoic Icehouse, culminating in the Hirnantian glaciation.
A significant evolutionary milestone during the Silurian was the appearance of jawed and bony fish.
It is not clear when the transition to a terrestrial existence was made, but it is considered plausible that it took place between the Ordovician and late Silurian — approximately — via the intertidal zone.
During the Silurian, was readily available, so little water needed expending to acquire it.
Eventually, through patient mapping and innovative use of index fossil analysis, Lapworth showed that what was thought to be a thick sequence of Silurian rocks was in fact a much thinner series of rocks repeated by faulting and folding.
In 1832 Dr Thomas Lloyd, the Ludlow doctor and amateur geologist, met Roderick Murchison at Ludford Corner to study the rocks exposed along the River Teme and on Whitcliffe, advancing Murchison's theory for a Silurian System that he was to publish in 1839.
Immediately above the topmost layer of the marine rock sequence forming Murchison's Silurian period was a thin layer of dark sand containing numerous remains of early fish, especially their scales, along with plant debris, spores and microscopic mites.
The Silurian Shawangunk conglomerate that was under a shallow sea, lifted due to pressure.
The Silurian Shawnangunk conglomerate that was under a shallow sea, lifted due to pressure.
Rosendale natural cement was produced from dolostone extracted from the Rosendale and Whiteport members of the Late Silurian Rondout Formation.
As was standard practice, as revealed by inscriptions, the Romans matched their deities with local Silurian ones, and the local deity Ocelus was identified with Mars, the Roman god of war.
The geologic period Silurian was first described by Roderick Murchison in rocks located in the original lands of the Silures, hence the name.
By the late 1880s and early 1900s, the trend extended both north and south across east-central Ohio and included several counties in western New York where gas was discovered in Lower Silurian Medina Group sandstones.
During the Ordovician and Silurian periods ( 500-410 million years ago ), Hạ Long Bay was deep sea.
Terrance Dicks ' adaptation of Warriors of the Deep, for example, clarified that Silurian Ichtar was a survivor of the Doctor Who and the Silurians encounter.
65 % of his palaeontological evidence featured in the 1839 publication " The Silurian System " was from Dudley.
Pressure from the collision twisted the Silurian Shawangunk Conglomerate, shattering the gray quartzite as it was uplifted.

Silurian and first
The first vertebrates appeared in the form of primitive fish, which greatly diversified in the Silurian and Devonian.
Xylem cells are specialised for conduction of water, and first appeared in plants during their transition to land in the Silurian period more than 425 million years ago ( see Cooksonia ).
This class of arthropod is thought to be among the first animals to have colonised land during the Silurian geologic period.
The first armored agnathans — the Ostracoderms, precursors to the bony fish and hence to the tetrapods ( including humans )— are known from the middle Ordovician, and by the Late Silurian the agnathans had reached the high point of their evolution.
By the early Silurian, the gills were becoming adapted for filter feeding and during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods siphons first appeared which, with the newly developed muscular foot, allowed the animals to bury themselves deep in the sediment.
The first sarcopterygians, found in the uppermost Silurian ( ca 418 Ma ), closely resembled the Acanthodians ( the " spiny fish ", a taxon that went extinct at the end of the Paleozoic ).
Macroscopic remains of true vascular plants are first found in the fossil record during the Silurian Period of the Paleozoic era.
In the first two instances ( Sanquhar and Thornhill ) the Carboniferous sediments lie in hollows worn out of the old Silurian tableland.
Since the mechanism is faulty, the younger Silurian will stay awake to operate it and sacrifice his life, while the new leader of the Silurians having orders to return to the area in 50 years and exterminate Humanity as the colony's first order of business.
The two ancient continents moved toward one another through the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, with tectonic folding during the Silurian pushing the first Scottish land above water.
They evolved in the sea at the beginning of the Silurian Period, some 50 million years before the first sharks appeared.
The first identifiable placoderms evolved in the late Silurian ; they began a dramatic decline during the Late Devonian extinctions, and the class was entirely extinct by the end of the Devonian.
Since Alfred Eisenack first recognised and named the group in 1930, the Chitinozoa have proven incredibly useful as a stratigraphic markers in biostratigraphy during the Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian periods.
He discovered secondary ( Cretaceous ) fossils in Queensland in 1860, he was also the first to indicate the presence of Silurian rocks, and to determine the age of the coal-bearing rocks in New South Wales.
creek the Rev W B Clarke first recognised Silurian fossils.
He discovered them around 1844 century and it was the first time that Silurian rocks were identified in Australia, and at the time were the oldest known rocks in Australia.
A new species of Lower Silurian ( middle Llandovery ) phacopsid trilobite, Acaste birminghamensis, was first collected from exposures on Red Mountain
Pterygotus first arose during the Silurian period, and eventually died out during the early to mid-Devonian.
Pterygotus was featured in the Silurian portion of the first episode of the BBC series Walking with Monsters, where it menaced a Brontoscorpio that was pursuing the Devonian jawless fish Cephalaspis.
A Silurian, a reptilian humanoid race that were the first intelligent lifeforms on Earth.

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