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Nautiloid
Time Period: Late Cambrian to Recent Characteristics: Marine cephalopods with straight or coiled shells
Heliolites
Time Period: Ordovician to Silurian Characteristics: A type of coral known for its honeycomb-like structures
Coelacanth
Time Period: Middle Devonian to Recent Characteristics: Lobe-finned fish, often considered a 'living fossil'
Orthoceras
Time Period: Ordovician to Triassic Characteristics: Straight-shelled nautiloid
Petrolacosaurus
Time Period: Late Carboniferous Characteristics: One of the earliest known diapsid reptiles
Pareiasaurus
Time Period: Late Permian Characteristics: Large, herbivorous reptile with heavy body armor
Brachiopod
Time Period: Appears in the early Cambrian and still exists today Characteristics: Has a hard 'valve' (shell) on the top and bottom
Sigillaria
Time Period: Late Carboniferous to Permian Characteristics: A large plant resembling a tree with vertical ribbed and fluted trunk
Lepidodendron
Time Period: Carboniferous to Permian Characteristics: Commonly referred to as 'scale trees', they are giant lycophytes
Eurypterid
Time Period: Ordovician to Permian Characteristics: Known as 'sea scorpions', includes some of the largest arthropods to have ever lived
Gastropod
Time Period: Appears in the Late Cambrian and still exists today Characteristics: Snails and similar organisms with a single, spirally coiled shell
Meganeura
Time Period: Late Carboniferous Characteristics: A very large dragonfly-like insect
Graptolite
Time Period: Cambrian to Carboniferous Characteristics: Colonial organisms known for their distinctive 'fence-like' structure
Archaeopteris
Time Period: Late Devonian Characteristics: Thought to be one of the first true trees
Cephalaspis
Time Period: Early Devonian Characteristics: A jawless fish with a shield-shaped head
Dunkleosteus
Time Period: Late Devonian Characteristics: Giant armored fish, part of the placoderm group
Proetid
Time Period: Early Devonian to Permian Characteristics: A type of trilobite with a semi-circular head
Dimetrodon
Time Period: Early Permian Characteristics: Possessed a large sail on its back, carnivorous
Trilobite
Time Period: Cambrian to Permian Characteristics: Distinct three-lobed, three-segmented body form
Pterygotus
Time Period: Silurian to Devonian Characteristics: A large predatory eurypterid ('sea scorpion')
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