How long the Silurian period lasted?
24.6 million years
When did it start?
end of the Ordovician Period
When it ended?
beginning of the Devonian Period
What signifies the Silurian period?
diversification of jawed and bony fish
What else?
Multi-cellular life
Where?
on land
like?
bryophyte
How about plants?
found on land
Was there lot of diversification?
no
Until when?
Devonian period
Who first came up with this period?
Roderick Murchison
Who was he?
geologist
From which country?
Britain
When he was doing his research?
1830s
Where?
south Wales
Did he name it after something?
yes
After what?
Celtic tribe of Wales
What they were called?
Silures
Who inspired him in that?
Adam Sedgwick
What he discovered?
Cambrian sequence