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Climatic Conditions
of
Paleozoic Era
PRESENTED BY
Jawad Bashir (Thunder).
Six major continents in
paleozoic
• Six Major continents were present.These
continents are
2. Baltica
3. China
4. Godowana
5. Kazakistania
6. Laurentia
7. Siberia
In Cambrian age
• Gaundwana
The biggest super
continent.
• Great collisions
• Major Glaciations
Early and late Ordovician
Climate in Ordovician Era
• Late Glaciations
• Shallow seas.
• Stable climate.
• Collision between
Baltica and Laurentia.
• Formation of
Cordilleran and
ellesmore
• Laurasian beginning
to move closer to
Gondwana.
Climatic Conditions
• Early Devonian was
little warmer and
moist.
• Extinction of Frasnian-
Famennian.
In Carboniferous age
• Active mountain building.
• Drifting of East
Gondwanaland.
• Collision of Gondwana
and Laurasia.
• Formation of Pangea.
Climate in Carboniferous
• Early stages are warm.
• Glaciations in Gondwana
• Deserts are
widespread.
• Swampy forests.
• Trace fossils.
• Comparative anatomy.
• Abundance of brachiopods.
Causes for Cambrian
explosion
• Increase in oxygen levels.