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15 unusual facts about Paleozoic


Bexley Township

While Bexley lies almost entirely within the Paleozoic limestone region of southern Ontario, the small portion of the Gull River valley north of Silver Lake lying within the township is within the Precambrian Canadian Shield region.

Birmingham, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

Birmingham is the site of the Birmingham Window, a geologic structure created by a Paleozoic thrust fault.

Euomphalidae

Euomphalidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic marine molluscs which may be gastropods with anisostrophically coiled shells (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Forest Falls, California

The rocks immediately surrounding Forest Falls are basement rocks characteristic of the major part of the San Bernardino Mountains, that is, Paleoproterozoic gneiss, Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic marble and quartzite, and Late Cretaceous granitic rocks.

Geography of Belize

Belizean geology consists largely of varieties of limestone, with the notable exception of the Maya Mountains, a large uplifted block of intrusive Paleozoic granite and sediments running northeast to southwest across the south-central part of the country.

Lanalhue Fault

Lanalhue Fault is a fault once active in the Paleozoic located in south-central Chile that cuts through Cordillera de Nahuelbuta.

South of Lanalhue Fault most of the Chilean Coast Range is an accretionary wedge formed by at least since the Paleozoic along the subduction zone at South Americas western margin.

Levi F. Noble

He also is remembered for his studies of Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks of the Grand Canyon and as the first to prepare a detailed geologic map of a large part of Grand Canyon National Park.

Mid-German Crystalline High

The Mid-German Crystalline High (or Mid-German High) is a structural high in the Paleozoic geology of Germany.

Pleurotomariidae

genus includes several hundred fossil forms, mostly Paleozoic.

S. K. Varma Nagar

The town boasts of a Museum named Panadhro Geological Museum, which holds in display, the fossils of Paleozoic era, found in nearby Panadhro mines.

Saxothuringian Zone

The Saxothuringian Zone consists of early Paleozoic marine sediments that were deposited in the so-called Saxothuringian Basin.

Spencer G. Lucas

His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits, particularly in the American Southwest.

Tiberius Cornelis Winkler

On the advice of the prominent Utrecht natural historian Pieter Harting, he applied a numerical system in which the fossils were divided into Periods (Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Caenozoic) and sorted from 'high' to 'low'.

Torotoro National Park

The Torotoro National Park offers scrubby woodland with wildlife like flocks of parakeets and the red-fronted macaw, as well as typical features of karst terrain like caves and dolines, Paleozoic and Cretaceous calcitic deposits with fossils, and panoramic landscapes eroded by glaciers, wind and waters.


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Cathedral Peak Granodiorite

In the north and northeast it comes into contact with weakly metamorphosed country rocks, mainly Paleozoic and Jurassic metavolcanics and metasediments.

Edward Oscar Ulrich

Edward Oscar Ulrich (1 February 1857, Covington, Kentucky – 22 February 1944, Washington, D.C.) was an invertebrate paleontologist specializing in the study of Paleozoic fossils.

Geology of Tennessee

In the Ordovician, the Appalachian Mountains began to form and by the end of the Paleozoic were tall peaks.

Georgii Frederiks

As well as major contributions to stratigraphy and geological mapping, G. N. Frederiks is particularly remembered for his contributions to the paleontology of the late Paleozoic era (Carboniferous and Permian periods), notably Brachiopoda, Ammonoidea, and Bryozoa.

James Monger

Monger concentrated his research on field studies and detailed geological mapping of upper Paleozoic and lower Mesozoic volcanic and sedimentary layers.

Kačák Event

Further afield at the time of the event, on the continental shelf on the other side of the Rheic Ocean, it has been recognised in Morocco, Cantabria in northern Spain, the Carnic Alps and Graz Paleozoic in Italy and Austria, the Montagne Noire in France and in the Barrandian area of the Czech Republic.

Lawrence Lambe

He also studied Devonian fishes from New Brunswick and Paleozoic corals, collected Tertiary insects and plants in British Columbia but it is for his work on vertebrates from western Canada, especially dinosaurs, that he is most famous.

Niles Eldredge

His specialty was the evolution of mid-Paleozoic Phacopida trilobites: a group of extinct arthropods that lived between 543 and 245 million years ago.

Panzhihua

Cycas first appeared in the back some 280 million years ago Earth Paleozoic Permian.

Pseudotemperoceras

Pseudotemperoceras has a slender, orthoconic shell that resembles that of the earlier, Paleozoic, Temperoceras from which it gets its name, although Temperoceras is a geisonoceratid rather than an orthoceratid

Rheic

Rheic Ocean, a Paleozoic ocean between the large continent Gondwana to the south and the microcontinents Avalonia and others

Spirorbis

Spirorbis was once thought to have a fossil record extending back into the Early Paleozoic, but now all pre-Cretaceous spirorbins are known to be microconchids.

Tornquist

Tornquist Sea, a paleo-sea between Baltica and Avalonia during early Paleozoic time

Trace fossil

Less ambiguous than the above ichnogenera, are the traces left behind by invertebrates such as Hibbertopterus, a giant "sea scorpion" or eurypterid of the early Paleozoic era.

Tremadoc

The Tremadocian, the first internationally-recognized stage of the Ordovician Period of the Paleozoic Era.

Tunnel valley

Open-pit gold mines near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, expose an extensive network of glacially-eroded valleys filled with tillite and shale cut below the Late Paleozoic Pilbara ice sheet.