12/15/2011

Mississippian

Mississippian period is from Carboniferous Era and Paleozoic Eon. It has about 359- 318 Million years ago. It has three epochs. In younger to older, Tournaisian, Visean,then Serpukhovian.
In Mississippian:

  • There are many plants and vertebrate was started born of land. 
  • Trilobite died of these period.
  • Lands area was increase and became warm and moist.

Two interesting fact of this period:

  1. Mississippian is named of Mississippi river. Because scientist almost found fossils of these rock layers.
  2. On Serpukhovian, terrestrial plants became the main life.
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