The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

Focuses on the 46-million-year Ordovician Period (489-443 my), when a bewildering array of adaptive radiations of Paleozoic and Modern-type biotas appeared in marine habitats, the first animals (arthropods) walked on land, and the first non-vascular bryophyte-like plants colonized terrestrial areas with damp environments.

• | By (Author): Barry Webby, Florentin Paris, Mary Droser, Ian Percival (Edited by)
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 14, 2004
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 496 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0231126786
• | ISBN-13: 9780231126786