Ordovician to Permian Pronunciation
485-252 million years ago
The Ordovician through Permian periods span most of the Paleozoic Era, a vast stretch of time when life was establishing itself in the seas and eventually colonizing land. This was hundreds of millions of years before the first dinosaur.
Fun Facts
- ✓The Ordovician Period saw the first vertebrates with jaws evolve.
- ✓Land plants first colonized terrestrial environments during the Ordovician-Silurian transition.
- ✓By the end of this interval, the first forests had appeared and the land was becoming recognizable.