Phanerozoic
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The Phanerozoic is the current and the latest of the four geologic eons in the Earth's geologic time scale, covering the time period from 538.8 ± 0.6 million years ago to the present. It is the eon du
Dalmanites limulurus, a species of Silurian trilobites
Cephalaspis, a jawless fish
Proterogyrinus, a Carboniferous amphibian (non-amniote tetrapod)
Plateosaurus, an early sauropodomorph dinosaur
The Permian–Triassic extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred around the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, and with them
Permian–Triassic boundary at Frazer Beach in New South Wales, with the End Permian extinction event located just above the coal layer
Shell bed with the bivalve Claraia clarai, a common early Triassic disaster taxon
Sessile filter feeders like this Carboniferous crinoid, the mushroom crinoid (Agaricocrinus americanus), were significantly less abundant after the P–Tr extinction.
Lystrosaurus was by far the most abundant early Triassic land vertebrate.