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__________ rediversified quickly after the Late Devonian mass extinction and assumed a prominent ecological position in the seas.

A) Tabulate corals
B) Ammonoids
C) Stromatoporoids
D) Placoderms

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Carboniferous and Early Permian vertebrates called __________ had the world largely to themselves and adapted into many forms, some of them rather large.

A) amphibians
B) arthropods
C) insects
D) reptiles

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__________ may have been large-bodied endotherms, which had a high metabolic rate.

In the stratigraphic cross-section through the central Appalachian Mountains, the three tectonic cycles of deposition (called I, II, and III, where I is the oldest) are related to these Appalachian orogenies, respectively:

The suturing of Siberia to eastern Europe (Pangaea) caused the __________ Mountains to form.

__________, a group of animals that were attached to the seafloor and captured food with their waving arms as it came floating by, expanded to their greatest diversity during Early Carboniferous.

In each Upper Carboniferous cyclothem, offshore shale is overlain directly by __________ as a result of __________.

Insects with wings were present by

The new reproductive strategy of reptiles allowed them to __________ for the first time.

The dominant fossil plants of Carboniferous were

During the uplift of the __________ Mountains and other Carboniferous uplands, a block fault formed that divided the __________ basins of western Texas.

The Middle Carboniferous orogeny in North America is known as

The Late Paleozoic disappearance of the __________ is an example of the late Paleozoic trend away from armor on swimming animals and toward greater mobility.

Onset of the Carboniferous-Permian ice age initiated a sudden

The mountains formed in southern Europe by the northward movement of Gondwanaland are called the

The key feature in the origin of reptiles was the

At the start of Late Permian, the __________ appeared and they were distinctly different from their ancestors, the pelycosaurs, in that their legs were more vertically beneath their bodies.

The end-Permian mass extinction, and the one that preceded it by nine 9 million years, the end-Guadalupian mass extinction, were both related to __________, which caused an episode of greenhouse warming and the onset of __________.

Between the tall coal-swamp trees of Late Carboniferous were shorter plants that included the non-seed group called

During __________ Carboniferous, most of Pangaea was formed when Gondwanaland collided with __________.