Timeline of Silurian research

This timeline of Silurian research is a chronological listing of events in the history of geology and paleontology focused on the study of Earth during the span of time lasting from 443.4–419.2 million years ago; the Silurian, and the legacies of this period in the rock and fossil records.

19th century

Eurypterus.

1825

1835

  • Roderick Murchison proposes the Silurian period based on outcrops in Wales and publishes On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems, Exhibiting the Order in which the Older Sedimentary Strata Succeed each other in England and Wales with Adam Sedgwick.

1844

1859

20th century

Cooksonia.

1937

1972

21st century

2010

  • Gonez and Gerrienne emended genus Cooksonia described by W. H. Lang in 1937.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IRMNG - Eurypterus De Kay, 1826 †". www.irmng.org.
  2. ↑ "Pterygotus". mindat.org.
  3. ↑ Hueber, Francis M. (2001). "Rotted wood-alga-fungus: the history and life of Prototaxites Dawson 1859". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 116 (1–2): 123. Bibcode:2001RPaPa.116..123H. doi:10.1016/S0034-6667(01)00058-6.
  4. ↑ "Cooksonia". mindat.org.
  5. ↑ Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N. (1972). "Brontoscorpio anglicus: A Gigantic Lower Paleozoic Scorpion from Central England". Journal of Paleontology. 46 (1): 39–42. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1302906.
  6. ↑ Gonez, Paul; Gerrienne, Philippe (February 2010). "A New Definition and a Lectotypification of the Genus Cooksonia Lang 1937". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 171 (2): 199–215. Bibcode:2010IJPlS.171..199G. doi:10.1086/648988.
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