Devonian Sea Floor

Brochures are available for a self guided tour.

Devonian sea floor.

Open daily during daylight hours. Prized by collectors whole trilobites usually display a three lobed oval shaped segmented skeleton often with distinct eyes. Laurussia is thought to have been near tropical and sometimes arid. The union of the paleocontinents of laurentia and baltica occurred near the beginning of the devonian to form a single landmass that has been referred to both as laurussia and as euramerica.

In this project sensilab is collaborating with the faculty of science school of geosciences to reconstruct an immersive visualisation of the devonian seafloor 400 million years ago. The devonian d ɪ ˈ v oʊ. A cell phone based audio tour is also available. This spillway area has thousands of fossils visible along its limestone floor.

Devonian period devonian period devonian geology. ən d ə d ɛ dih voh nee ən də deh is a geologic period and system of the paleozoic spanning 60 million years from the end of the silurian 419 2 million years ago mya to the beginning of the carboniferous 358 9 mya. By this time there was a stagnant low oxygen environment in the deepest waters. Over time they became exquisitely preserved fossils.

The northern portion of the combined landmass gave rise to widespread areas of continental desert playa and alluvial plain deposits that form one of. Devonian igneous activity was considerable albeit localized. Later devonian deposits of the ohio shale hint at environmental changes in the shallow sea. It is named after devon england where rocks from this period were first studied.

They belong to an extinct group of bottom dwelling hard shelled arthropods that scavenged the sea floor. These scott county specimens are 375 million years old devonian. Water flooded into the spillway in 1993 and again in 2008. Playa facies eolian dunes and fan breccias are known.

Walk the fossilized devonian age sea floor. Some of them performed better when moving close to the sea floor or riverbed while others performed better when swimming freely. Silurian devonian jawless fish were ecologically diversified. It is the emergency spillway area for the coralville dam.

The first significant adaptive radiation. Devonian period devonian period sediment types. Zero one created an underwater virtual reality experience showcasing the flora and fauna of the devonian period.