The first era of visible life, opening with the Cambrian explosion and closing with the worst mass extinction Earth has recorded. It holds the Cambrian period, among others. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Start (Million Years Ago) End (Million Years Ago) Key EventLife colonizes land, fish, plants and later reptiles, ending in the Permian mass extinction, the largest die-off in the fossil record. 1 Defining Event Defining Event Paleozoic
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The Cambrian witnessed the most rapid and widespread diversification of life in Earth's history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most modern phyla first appeared.
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The Paleozoic Era ended with the largest extinction event of the Phanerozoic Eon, the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
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Avalonia was a microcontinent in the Paleozoic era.
Baïgorry Valley (Wikipedia)
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The Baïgorry Valley lies within an ancient massif composed of Paleozoic rocks dating from 550 to 250 million years ago.
Cades Cove (Wikipedia)
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Geologically, Cades Cove is a type of valley known as a "limestone window", created by erosion that removed the older Precambrian sandstone, exposing the younger Paleozoic limestone beneath.
Cape Fold Belt (Wikipedia)
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The Cape Fold Belt formed during the Permian period (300 to 250 million years ago) in the late Paleozoic age, affecting the sequence of sedimentary rock layers of the siliciclastic Cape Supergroup with folding and faulted rocks, which were deposited in the Cape Basin in the southwestern corner of South Africa.
Insular Islands (Wikipedia)
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The Insular Islands were an extended chain of volcanic islands forming an arc in what is now the Pacific Ocean during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.
Tibesti Mountains (Wikipedia)
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Major lava flows have formed vast plateaus that overlie Paleozoic sandstone.
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