-
Flowing plants proliferated, along with new types of insects that pollinate them. Many new types of dinosaurs. Mordern sharks appeared in the sea. Primitive birds gradually replaced pterosaurs.
-
Fish were common and diverse. The first lungfish, which could breathe air, appeared, followed by the first amphilbians.
-
plants took over tyhe land.The first torsetail and ferns appeared, and he occuered for the first seed-bearing plants.
-
The first vascular plants appeared - Plants with specialized tissues for conducting water and nutrients - along with the first plants of land.
-
As the contienents of North America and Europe/Africa moved together, more rock was pushed upwards.
-
The "Cambrain Explosion" saw a major diversification of life. many fossils survived from this time.
-
The kings Mountain Belt was formed about 540million years ago as the piedmont slowly moved into the rest of the continent.
-
By this time, the eastern coast of North America lay somewhere in middle Tennesse, except for islands and volcanoes, North Carolina was under water.
-
About 1,300mya, the first mountains were formed in north carolina called the greenville Mountains .
-
-
Mordern mammals like birds and the first apes appeared, Grasses spread across the globe, And rapid erosion in the piedmont was uneven, and left behind the UwHarrie Mountains behind.
-
Animals, especially mammals, evolved rapidly and became more diverse.About 31 mya, The ocean advanced west as far as present-day New Bern.
-
About 320 million years ago, The North American and Euro- Africa continents collided. The land under the peidmont was aslo push upward. The contients were united called Pangea.
-
In wetland forests, ferns thrive and primitive trees called scale tree grew more than 100 feet high.
-
In the seas, invertebrates diversified into many new types, and the first tiny vertebrates appeared. The first green plants and fungi appeared on land.
-
-
As loxygen-producing bacteria proliferated, the atmosphere became oxygenic filled with oxygen for the first time.
