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Also Known As Palaeozoic Era

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geologic time
Silurian coral-stromatoporoid community
Pennsylvanian coal forest
Cambrian paleogeography
plant evolution
timeline of life on Earth
Grand Canyon rock layering
Carboniferous Period.
Devonian Period
Ordovician System
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Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Raymond Cecil Moore
American paleontologist