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Silurian · 443.8 – 419.2 Ma

Silurian fossil sites

The Silurian saw life emerge onto land. The first vascular plants and the first jawed fish both appear in Silurian rocks. Wenlock-age limestones in the English West Midlands preserve some of the best-known fossil reefs of any period.

Fossils typical of this period: trilobites (Calymene, Dalmanites), brachiopods, eurypterids (sea scorpions), graptolites, early jawed fish.

8 fossil sites