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Silurian period

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Noun1.Silurian periodSilurian period - from 425 million to 405 million years ago; first air-breathing animals
Paleozoic, Paleozoic era - from 544 million to about 230 million years ago


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Then by degrees, in the silurian period, the tops of the mountains began to appear, the islands emerged, then disappeared in partial deluges, reappeared, became settled, formed continents, till at length the earth became geographically arranged, as we see in the present day.
 
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