Life During the Paleozoic Era

This video explores the very long period of time from the Cambrian (over 600 million years ago). You will see the fossil record and artists drawings and dioramas of life in the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian and Permian Periods. You will see plant, marine and land life including diatoms, algae, mosses, ferns, cycads, brachiopods, trilobites, crinoids, insects, reptiles, ammonites, sharks and fish. Also discusses mass extinction theories and show how the continents have moved.