Dinopedia
Dinopedia
A Blast From The Past
5,664
pages
in: Article stubs, Devonian, Time Periods

Lower Devonian

Sign in to edit
StubMicroraptor
Smaller than a Microraptor!
This article is a stub! You can help Dinopedia out by adding more information to it.
Trilobite

A Trilobite an animal common of the Lower Devonian.

The Lower Devonian lasted from 382.31 to 372.15 million years ago.[1] It was the last part of the Devonian period, the Devonian as a whole is usually called the Age of Fishes.[2] This period experienced many extinctions, and was followed by the beginning of the Carboniferous period.

System (period) Series (epoch) Stage (age) Lower boundary, Ma
Carboniferous Mis. Lower Tournaisian 358.9±0.4
Devonian Upper (Late) Famennian 372.2±1.6
Frasnian 382.7±1.6
Middle Givetian 387.7±0.8
Eifelian 393.3±1.2
Lower (Early) Emsian 407.6±2.6
Pragian 410.8±2.8
Lochkovian 419.2±3.2
Silurian Pridoli older
Subdivisions and "golden spikes" according to IUGS as of September 2023[3]

​

Species During the Lower Devonian[4][]

  1. Bivalves
  2. Crinoid
  3. Blastoid
  4. Echinoderms
  5. Graptolites
  6. Trilobite
  7. Dunkleosteus
  8. Hyneria
  9. Hynerpeton
  10. Stethacanthus
  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonian#Subdivisions
  2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonian
  3. ↑ "Latest version of international chronostratigraphic chart". International Commission on Stratigraphy. https://stratigraphy.org/chart#latest-version. 
  4. ↑ https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/devonian/devonian.php
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.