Life on earth

Subdecks (2)

Cards (32)

  • Enchinoderms = starfish like creatures
  • Arthropods = jointed metazoa
  • conodont = jawless fish like eels
  • End ordovician extinction - 85% of all species due to volcanic winter
  • Silurian period contained graptolites and corrals
  • Devonian = vascular plants, gymnosperms, roots and age of fish
  • Late devonian extinction = 75% of all marine species due to cooling because of continental collision
  • Carboniferous = swamp and coal forests, insect and tetrapod development
  • Permian = dry climate and age of reptiles, synapids with cooling fins and therapsids (upright legs)
  • Permian extinction = mother of all: 90%, volcanic activity and acid rain
  • Triassic = Iystrosaurus high dominance and tetrapod bounceback
  • Triassic extinction = 80% due to volcanic activity
  • Jurassic = age of dinosaurs, ornithischian (orni this chan bird hipped), sauristhischan (saris this chan, lizard hipped)
  • Cretaceous = bird and flower evolution with a warm climate
  • Cretaceous extinction = 75% of all species due to meteor, end of dinosaurs
  • Paleocene = age of mammals, mega fauna, monotremes, marsoupials, placentals