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416 MA                  DEVONIAN416 PERIOD (57 M)               (416-359 MA)

                                Acadian mountain building

                                Age of Fishes

                                LOWER DEVONIAN416  EPOCH  (18.5 M)   (416-397.5 MA)

                   LOCHKOVIAN416  STAGE  (4.8 M)                                (416-411.2 MA)

411.2 MA               PRAGIAN411.2  STAGE  (4.2 M)                                       (411.2-407 MA)

407 MA                  EMSIAN407  STAGE  (9.5 M)                                             (407-397.5 MA)

400 MA                  Ammonites appear (Late Silurian - Early Devonian)

397.5 MA               MIDDLE DEVONIAN397.5 EPOCH  (12.2 M)(397.5-385.3 MA)

                   EIFELIAN397.5  STAGE  (5.7 M)                                       (397.5-391.8 MA)

391.8 MA               GIVETIAN391.8  STAGE  (6.5 M)                                       (391.8-385.3 MA)

385.3 MA               UPPER DEVONIAN385.3  EPOCH  (26.10 M) (385.3-359.2 MA)

                   FRASNIAN385.3  STAGE  (10.8 M)                                  (385.3-374.5  MA)

385 MA                  Eusthenopteron - fish creature

375 MA                  Tiktaalik roseae - missing link between fish and amphibian

374.5 MA               FAMENNIAN374.5  STAGE  (15.3 M)                               (374.5-359.2 MA)

370 MA                  Large shallow ocean spread across much of North America

                                Cladoselache - (up to 1 meter long) one of the most ancient and primitive sharks (Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee)

365 MA                  Horsetails

                                Ferns

                                Ichthyostega - with hind limb

                                Amphibians appear

                                Land arthropods abundant

 

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