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lower paloezoic

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general aspects for Cambrian - Ordovician   tectonic cycles  
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transgressive phase - Cambrian   phase 1  
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oceans over continents forming epeiric (inland) seas   phase 1  
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Cambriain - most of the craton covered by water   epeiric seas  
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warm climate   phase 1  
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volcanism at a low ebb   phase 1  
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sandstones - shales - limestones   sediments  
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offshore overlies onshore   Walther's Law - Transgressive section  
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interfingering relationships   Walther's Law - Transgressive section  
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time lines cut lithologies   Walther's Law - Transgressive section  
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mainly fine grained marine sediment   Walther's Law - Transgressive section  
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limestones dominated   marine sediment  
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near-shore clastics   marine sediment  
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sequences thickening offshore due to sediment loading and lithosphere cooling   Walther's Law - Transgressive section  
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regressive phase - Late Ordovician   phase 2  
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retreating water due to major glaciation - sea level fall   phase 2  
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coastal land disturbance and uplift   phase 2  
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continental sediment abundant   phase 2  
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climates diversify   phase 2  
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cooler temperatures   phase 2  
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(Phase 1 transgression)   early cambrian  
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trilobites abundant   Phase 1  
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liked warm, shallow fine grained system   trilobites  
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Laurentia (N. Am., Greenland, British Isles)   Phase 1  
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just north of the equator   Laurentia  
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rotated 90o   Laurentia  
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global circulation changes, regression   Late Cambrian  
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climatic cooling   Late Cambrian  
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periodic trilobite mass extinctions   Late Cambrian  
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dark shales deposited with fossil graptolites   Middle Ordovician  
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identified as the graptolite facies   Middle Ordovician  
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Laurentia still near equator but rotated 45o   Middle Ordovician  
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position continents by latitude   paleomagnetism  
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faunal provinces indicate latitude   paleobiogeography  
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sediments as climate indicators   paleoclimatology  
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warm, dry   dunes  
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warm, wet   coals  
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cold, wet (glaciation)   tills  
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Grenville to 880 Ma   Precambrian disturbance  
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settled into transgressive phase 1 in the Cambrian   Precambrian disturbance  
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Ozark Mts. - Precambrian   broad continental highs  
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Transcontinental Arch; cambrian   broad continental highs  
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Wisconsin Dome; cambrian   broad continental highs  
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Ordovician - Cincinnati Arch   broad continental highs  
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Late Ordovician   Taconic Orogeny  
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only in the Eastern US - Appalachian area   (Phase 2 regression)  
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Western Laurentia was stable   (Phase 2 regression)  
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Laurentia - collided with an island arc   (Phase 2 regression)  
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oceanic crust obducted - thrust up   Taconic Orogeny  
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ophiolites (ocean crust) exposed   Taconic Orogeny  
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Iapetus (proto-atlantic) Ocean beginning to close   Taconic Orogeny  
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eroded sands spread west from eastern highs   phase 2  
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abundant salt deposits developed ~500 m thick   (Phase 1 transgression)  
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shallow epicontinental seas   (Phase 1 transgression)  
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early Cambrian - radiation of life was slow   cambrian life  
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algae in epicontinental seas   plants  
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abundant, marine; calcium used in shells   invertebrates  
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uses inorganics as food - plants   autotrophic  
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uses organics as food - animals   heterotrophic  
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fixed forms were filter or suspension feeders   Modes of Life  
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most mobile forms were deposit feeders   Modes of Life  
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Siberia   Tommotian Fauna  
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small skeletal elements   Tommotian Fauna  
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many not associated with any living phylum   Tommotian Fauna  
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some ancestral to mollusks; brachiopods; sponges   Tommotian Fauna  
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Age of trilobites   (Arthropods)  
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75% of all Cambrian fossils   (Arthropods)  
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good guide/index fossils   (Arthropods)  
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lived on shallow shelves   (Arthropods)  
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bottom feeder   (Arthropods)  
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calcium phosphate carapace   (Arthropods)  
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fixed to the bottom   brachiopods  
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phosphatic shells   brachiopods  
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mainly inarticulate   brachiopods  
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Class Inarticulata   brachiopods  
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not hinged   brachiopods  
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extinction in the Cambrian   archaeocyathids  
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cone shaped   archaeocyathids  
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helped form early reefs in Tommotian time   archaeocyathids  
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closely related to sponges   archaeocyathids  
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Middle Cambrian   Burgess Shale  
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black shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains   Burgess Shale  
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soft body organisms well preserved   Burgess Shale  
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Pikaia - Burgess Shale   first vertebrate  
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has a notochord   chordate  
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named Anatolepis) - dated at 510 Ma   first fish  
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found in the Deadwood formation, Wyoming   first fish  
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Cambrian to Triassic   conodonts  
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rasping organs from a chordate   conodonts  
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excellent guide fossil   conodonts  
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generally warm shallow seas   Ordovician life  
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Plants/bacteria - first land plants - restricted to moist habitats   Ordovician life  
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algae in epicontinental seas   plants  
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reproduction using spores   plants  
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significant decline - increased predation   stromatolites  
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major evolutionary radiation in the oceans   invertebrates  
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key guide fossils   graptolites  
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cephalopods advanced invertebrates   nautiloid  
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calcium carbonate shell (CaCO3) common   Middle - Late Ordovician  
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abundant oil/gas formed form organic material   Middle - Late Ordovician  
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height of trilobite development   Middle - Late Ordovician  
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eurypterids: water scorpions   Middle - Late Ordovician  
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corals (rugose) and crinoids common   Ordovician to Permian  
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first colonies of bryozoans   Ordovician to Permian  
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stromatoporoids and tabulates   Ordovician to Permian  
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fish continued adaptive radiation   Ordovician to Permian vertebrates  
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major mass extinction/glaciation near the end of the Ordovician   Ordovician to Permian  
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