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Life in the Cambrian and Ordovician - GEO GIRL

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This course surveys life in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, focusing on organisms, habitats, reefs, predators, evolutionary experimentation, the first vertebrates, biodiversity, and mass extinction. It emphasizes that most life lived in the sea while early land plants began altering Earth systems.

Syllabus

Timeline & Summary
Cambrian Burrowers
3 Cambrian Life Intervals
Tommotian Fauna
Large Skeletonized Fauna
Soft Bodied Organisms
Huge Cambrian Predators
Cambrian Modes of Life
Cambrian Reefs
Evolutionary Experimentation
First Vertebrates
Burgess Shale
Ordovician Life
Convergent Evolution of Shells
Great Ordovician Biodiversification
Ordovician Reefs
Ordovician Predators
Ordovician Mass Extinction
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