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Earliest record of marine life
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(starfish,sand dollars, sea urchin, and sea cucumbers) Invertebrates are dominate, mollusks, become abundant, Earliest fish that are jawless and later jawed armor fish.
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Earliest terrestrial plants and animals. (tikkalik)
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Armor fish go extinct, but abundance of several species of fish, Earliest amphibians and ammonites.
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(Mississippian, Pennsylvanian) Abundant sharks and amphibians. Large swamps and coal farming forest. Earliest reptiles, scaled trees, and seed ferns.
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Extinction of many types of marine animals including Trioblites
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Earliest Dinosaurs, abundant cycads and conifers.
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Earliest birds and mammals abundant dinosaurs and ammonites.
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Earliest flowering plants, Climax of dinosaurs followed by their extinction. Great decline of Brachiopods of Biny fish.
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Earliest Placental mammals, modern mammals, large running mammals
