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443.7 to 418.0 million years ago
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During the 1830s the great English geologist Sir was studying fossiliferous strata outcropping in the hills of South Wales. He named this geological stage the Silurian System, after the Silures, an ancient Celtic tribe that lived along what is now the Welsh-English border. In 1835 Murchison and presented a joint paper, "On the Silurian and Systems, Exhibiting the Order in which the Older Sedimentary Strata Succeed each other in England and Wales". This paper laid the foundation for the modern geological time scale. During the following years a bitter controversy arose between the two former friends over the relative status of the Cambrian and the Silurian. This was only resolved in 1879 by the formulation of a further, period as intermediate between the two stages.
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The early saw the continents clustered around the equator, with continuing its slow southern drift. Meanwhile Siberia, and converge at the equator. By the end of the Silurian, these colliding continents had began to raise mountains and forge a new supercontinent, .
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| Period/System | Epoch/Series | Age/Stage | When began (mya) |
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| Early Devonian | Lochkovian | 416.0 | |
| Silurian | Pridoli | (not subdivided) | 418.7 |
| Ludlow | Ludfordian | 421.3 | |
| Gorstian | 422.9 | ||
| Wenlock | Homerian | 426.2 | |
| Sheinwoodian | 428.2 | ||
| Llandovery | Telychian | 436.0 | |
| Aeronian | 439.0 | ||
| Rhuddanian | 443.7 | ||
| Late Ordovician | Hirnantian | 445.6 |
See also the very useful biostratigraphic chart at .
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The Earth entered a long warm greenhouse phase. However climate varied with latitude rather similarly to what happens today. Glaciers occurred in the higher latitudes (over 65o). Regions of marked aridity occurred within 40o of the Silurian equator. Warm shallow seas covered much of the equatorial land masses.
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The Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of Britain reveals one of the most diverse, and well-preserved fossil assemblages known, with well over 600 species of recorded. The Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of Wales and the Welsh Borderland contains a diverse fauna of well over 600 species (mainly , , , , and ) deposited during the when this area was covered by a relatively warm, shallow shelf sea. The Crinoidea account for around 10% of this number with an estimated 35 genera and 56 species.
- The Wenlock bryozoans remain poorly studied and understood, even though they constitute an important part of the fauna. Species concepts are often insufficient, and there is a need for revised descriptions, incorporating thin-section work. Furthermore, , and functional morphological studies also need to be carried out, as these areas have not been investigated in detail. Preliminary work on one particularly characteristic Wenlock bryozoan, (Goldfuss, 1829), a , has revealed new information on its , together with patterns of seasonal development based on zooid measurements. In addition, multivariate statistical analyses are currently being used to review the fenestrate species. Past workers have relied too heavily on the so-called ‘micrometric formula’ and, as a result, taxonomically important characters have often been overlooked, and little thin-section work has been carried out. It is hoped that this research, utilizing a wider range of characters, will provide a reliable taxonomic platform for the study of Silurian bryozoan phylogeny and " (Snell 1999).
The Crinoids of Much Wenlock
- "The Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of Britain reveals one of the most diverse, and well-preserved fossil assemblages known, with well over 600 species of invertebrates recorded. The Crinoidea account for around 10% of this number with an estimated 35 genera and 56 species. The high quality of preservation has revealed a range of small-scale morphological features among the aboral surfaces of the arms and calyces of this group. Small, circular to sub-circular depressions and parabolic traces are randomly situated in the calcite plates of a number of the crinoid taxa. A small number of these features indicate in vivo formation through the presence of rims and gall-like features surrounding the trace. These structures are interpreted as a response by the crinoid to the presence of another organism through either a mechanical or a chemical stimulant. The lack of penetration into the body cavity and the extent of the reaction structures suggest a relationship existed between host crinoid and trace maker. A high degree of host-selectivity is observed with only 15% of crinoid species being affected. This number includes some of the most abundant crinoid species in fossil collections as well as a number of much rarer species. Work is now commencing on the taxonomic identity of the pit-producing organisms" (Widdison 1999).
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Following the Ordovician extinction event there was a rapid recovery of invertebrate faunas during the Silurian. The high sea levels and warm shallow continental seas provided a hospitable environment for marine life of all kinds. The biota and ecological dynamics were basically still similar to that of the Ordovician, but were more diverse.
are the most common hard-shelled organisms, making up 80% of the total species. Among these, first appear and are abundant, , and the spire-bearing and are also common, as are other groups that continue from the Ordovician.
Tropical reefs are common in the shallow seas of this period, formed by and , , and . , , , and . The trilobites, having reached their acme in the Cambrian and Ordovician, are now in decline. The and are absent, whilst and do not survive the end of the Silurian
remain common and diverse. The single-spined is the predominant genus, and its species are useful as zone fossils.
invade brackish and fresh water, as do , , and , which may have been semi-aquatic. , primitive , and became the first proper land organisms. At the end of the period appeared for the first time, but they remain insignificant.
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A Silurian sea floor, showing numerous of the genus , large , the "sunflower coral" (possibly a green alga) Ischadites, and of the genera , , and . Crawling among the coral and are various kinds of . In the background are of the genus , and straight shelled ().
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Silurian pelagic organisms included planktonic , , (although most were crawlers, some were swimmers), , "" jawless fish, and .
Of all of these, the cephalopods were the largest and most impressive animals of the marine biota. While most were pelagic or benthopelagic, there were some that were bottom-dwellers. The following sketch illustrates the diversity of Silurian forms:
- A view of the mode of life of some Silurian nautiloids. In the top left a large orthoconic form [probably an or large ; the shells of either of which reached a meter or more in length] swims forward, it's buoyancy nearly neutral and its hyponome bent back; its upper surface may have been camouflaged to allow the further possibility of a more concealed resting position on the sea floor, but these large nautiloids were at the top of the food pyramid and presumably had little to fear. The smaller species below has remained undetected, its camouflage effective in the dappled light of the photic zone; it swims away backwards. In the bottom right a microphagous [either an or a , both independently evolved a very similar lifestyle and morphology] is suspended quietly in its vertical position; it would not have been obvious from above and may have had camouflage markings (not shown); in any case it could retract entirely within its shell. The species [an Oncocerid] shown scavenging on the substrate has camouflage all round its shell; however its hyponome would permit swimming, when the cyrtocone would be brought to a more horizontal attitude. The torticonic Foersteoceras-like form is shown in its customary benthic position, though it could use its hyponome to direct an ascent through the water. In the upper right an Ophioceras is shown as a nimble and (unlike the large orthocone) highly maneuverable swimmer; it and the other forms are shown approximately to scale. Most streamlined and effective swimmer of all was the mature shown above."
Drawing by Elaine Cullen, text by C.H. Holland [comments in square brackets by MAK] from C.H. Holland, "Form and Function in Silurian Cephalopoda", 1984, Special Papers in Palaeontology, No,32, pp.151-164
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A typical Silurian (Wenlock-Ludlow) vertebrate fauna from Saaremaa Island, Estonia. This fauna is dominated by , including (1, ), (2, ), (3, ), and (4, ; 5, ; 6, ; 7, ; 8, ; 9, ). Jawed fishes are also present, especially (10. ) and possibly the earliest known (11. , known only from isolated scales and teeth). All these fishes lived in a marine environment, but osteostracans were more confined to lagoonal, shallow-water , whereas acanthodians and thelodonts were probably . Reconstruction and most of caption from Janvier 1996, p, 4
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, , , , , , , , , and possibly also were present or probably present in estuarine environments during the Middle and Late Silurian.
- ", an extinct group of aquatic , were undoubtedly affected by environmental constraints imposed by their physiology and gross morphology, as are modern aquatic organisms. Kjellesvig-Waering (1961) proposed a series of distinct ecological phases for eurypterids, defined by the environment in which they lived, and based on the Upper Silurian Welsh Borderland fauna. However, evidence from the eurypterid fauna of the Upper Silurian Bertie Waterlime Formation, New York, suggests that two distinct transitional assemblages existed, perhaps caused by a difference in the environmental preferences of juvenile and adult eurypterids (‘’) (Manning 1993). The eurypterids from the Upper Silurian of the Welsh Borderland may represent a previously undescribed, ontogenetically mixed, eurypterid assemblage, influenced by a series of facies changes; this is supported by sedimentological evidence (Manning, 1993). The distinct ecological phase model (Kjellesvig-Waering 1961) is rejected in favor of ecological gradients overlapping non-distinct eurypterid phases (inter-phase mixing). Inter-phase mixing might have been complicated further by the influence of ontogenetic migration of species across both physiological and environmental gradients. Combining this with new fossil evidence on the dual respiratory and osmoregulatory systems of eurypterids (Manning 1993; Manning & Dunlop 1995) leads to a better understanding of the palaeoecology of this enigmatic group" (Manning 1999)
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The most important evolutionary development of this period, was that of the first true terrestrial ecosystem
The first fossil records of , that is, land plants with tissue that carries food, appeared in the Silurian period. They were simple plants that had not developed separate stems and leaves.
By the , a very simple early terrestrial community with simple plant producers, , and , , and had developed. The Mid-Late Silurian terrestrial biota included small plants along the water's edge, and such as and (ref ). Fungi, , and perhaps were most likely present as well, although they did not leave a fossil record (except for possible fungi)
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A Silurian reef by project
A good introduction to the (complete with map) is included in the site.
- a selection of Silurian fossils from Nova Scotia
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