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Geological Timescale
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The presence of stromatolites indicates that shallow seas covered much of Earth during intervals in this period.
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Nearly half of the valuable mineral deposits in the world occur in the rock in this period
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Trilobites Appear
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Shelled brachiopods appear
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There is very little plant life during this period
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Colonies of tiny invertebrates call graptolites flourished and vertebrates appear, fish did not have jaws or teeth and their bodies were covered with bony plates