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Assorted References
- geochronology
- role of Sedgwick
development of life
- seed plants
- In seed plant
effect on
geological development of
- Africa
- Australia
Additional Reading
A comprehensive summary of the Devonian Period is M.R. House and F.M. Gradstein, “The Devonian Period,” in Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, and Alan G. Smith (eds.), A Geologic Time Scale 2004 (2004). Complete treatment of Devonian rocks, environment, and life-forms is given in David L. Dineley, Aspects of a Stratigraphic System: The Devonian (1984); M.R. House, C.T. Scrutton, and M.G. Bassett (eds.), The Devonian System: A Palaeontological Association International Symposium (1979); W.S. McKerrow and C.R. Scotese (eds.), Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography (1990); N.J. McMillan, A.F. Embry, and D.J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Devonian System, Calgary, Canada, 3 vol. (1988); and Otto H. Walliser (ed.), Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic (1996).
The historic agreement to fix the boundary between the Silurian and Devonian systems at the Klonk site in the Czech Republic—the first practical application of the so-called “golden spike”—is found in Anders Martinsson, The Silurian-Devonian Boundary: Final Report of the Committee on the Silurian-Devonian Boundary Within IUGS Commission on Stratigraphy and a State of the Art Report for Project Ecostratigraphy (1977). The extinction event in the Late Devonian is treated in George R. McGhee, The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: The Frasnian-Famennian Crisis (1996).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: The Geological Society - Lyell Collection - Devonian climate, sea level and evolutionary events: an introduction. | Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Terrestrial-marine teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and marine anoxic events. | Jun 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: West Virginia University - The Research Repository @ WVU - The Devonian Period. | Apr 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ohio History Central - Devonian Period. | Dec 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - Devonian Period: Climate, Animals and Plants. | Nov 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Live birth in the Devonian period. | Sep 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Geological Society - Devonian. | Jul 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California Museum of Paleontology - The Devonian Period. | Jun 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Natural History Museum - Devonian Period. | Dec 30, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Devonian Period—419.2 to 358.9 mya. | Oct 15, 2022 | ||
| Removed erroneous statement. | May 03, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 27, 2019 | ||
| Nomenclature change made to reflect the adoption of the name the Republic of North Macedonia in February 2019. | Feb 22, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kidipede Science for Kids - Devonian Period. | Feb 13, 2014 | ||
| Text added that updates the interval's boundary years. | May 09, 2013 | ||
| Text added that updates the interval's boundary years. | May 08, 2013 | ||
| Added image of a Devonian lungfish. | Feb 01, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Devonian Period. | Aug 23, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Science - Devonian period. | Aug 23, 2011 | ||
| Removed Devonian Period time scale. | Jul 12, 2011 | ||
| Map depicting the configuration of landmasses present during the Devonian Period added. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Updated geologic time data. | May 25, 2010 | ||
| New text changing the timing of tetrapod emergence from the end to the middle of the Devonian period added. | Jan 08, 2010 | ||
| Period-level geologic time chart added. | Dec 28, 2009 | ||
| Period-level geologic time chart added. | Dec 28, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Geographic - Science - Devonian Period. | Apr 17, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Devonian Period. | Jul 17, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Palaeos - The Devonian Period - 1. | Apr 07, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Natural History Museum - Devonian. | Feb 18, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Feb 02, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 02, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of California Museum of Paleontology - The Devonian. | Jan 10, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Official Site of Devonian Times. | Jan 10, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology - The Devonian Period. | Jun 27, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |
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