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Fossils from this time survived and most modern phyla ( broadest groupings of animals and plants) appeared including the first chordates (ancestors of vertebrates)
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Trilobites, worms, sponges, Brachipods and many other animals flourshied.
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This era includes the Neo, Meso and Paleo.
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First fossils of mutli-celled animals surive form this period. Eukarytes appeared as early as 1000 million years ago, and worm like animals and the first sponges by about 600 million years ago. Land under NC was pulled apart developing island volcanos, forming an arc from Virginia to Gerogia
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green algae appered in seas, 1300 millions ago the first mountains formed called the Greenville Mountains. Th e rocks from these mountains lie under the Appaalachains and part of the Pedimont and Costal Plane.
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the armosphere became oxygenic for the first time. 1800 million years ago the first complex single celled life form called cells with nuclei emerged.