The Silurian Period: Life Moving to Earth and Other Life

In this video we will explore the life of the Silurian. The history of landward movement is often presented as a major component of the Silurian, but as we will see, microbes, plants, and probably fungi were all present on land before the Silurian. And animals might be too, although we're still waiting for convincing pre-Silurian fossils. Beyond the history of terrestrialization, we will meet some other actors of the Silurian. Eurypterids were some pretty awesome apex predators that I would love to meet and hang out with someday. And then there are the corals which feel good but are also a little weird.

Articles referenced/shown.
This amazing one on terrestrialization – https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1144/SP532-2022-92
On Burgvik mushrooms – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1985.tb00680.x
These microbes on earth for a while before landing – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.12172
Tortotubus protuberans – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034666713000948
Cambrian Arthropod Traces – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259345181_Arthropod_traces_in_the_Middle_Cambrian_of_Morocco#::textOne%20of%20the%20most%20puzzl%20ing%20details%20is,Member%20of%20the%20L%20mdad%20syncline % 2C% 20Top%20Atlas.
Two centipedes on land – https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.250.4981.658
Ordovician spores – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321839818_Ordovician_spore_%27thalli%27_and_the_evolution_of_the_plant_sporophyte
Oldest Acanthodian – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4122448/

That podcast episode I mentioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vDF4Z87WENxc&t9s from @iwishyouweredeadpodcast2391

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Credits.
The Silurian and Devonian maps presented are acquired from http://www.chronosphere-portal.org/docs/paleomap/ under the CC-BY-4.0 license
Cooksonia pertoni – Smith609Soil texture from Image:Mud closeup.jpg, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cooksonia – MUSE, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Map of Burgsvik beds – Verisimilus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sherwood Gray Pike – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sherwood-Pike_Gray_1985.jpg
Geodized Pentamerid Brachiopods – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sherwood-Pike_Gray_1985.jpg
Silurian trilobite – DanielCD, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Silurian trilobite – Kennethgass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anomolacaris – Junnn11, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nautiloid – Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eurypteris – By Obsidian Soul Background: Dimitris Siskopoulos from Alexandroupolis, Greece – Own work Background: Water_floor.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid15267454
Restoring the life of Sparalepis tingi – Brian Choo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Silurolepis – Apokryltaros, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nerepisacanthus – Danielle Dufault, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
Acanthostega gunnari – Ryan Somma, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commonshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acanthostega_gunnari.jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acanthostega_gunnari.jpg