One of the things I liked were all the algal and bacterial mats (ie "layers of slime"). I figure they are the "colonizers".
the "non-vascular plants" are kinda hard to picture. No roots, stems, etc, and maybe a couple inches tall.
Horsetails and ferns are easy. Fun fact: fresh horsetails are nature's firecrackers. Toss them in a fire and they go bang as the segments rupture from the steam pressure.
I forget what gets added to those in the late Devonian. Early trees, but not sure about types.
As for animals, there are insects (I think ants go that far back, but bees need to wait for flowering plants to come along). Arthopods (spiders, scorpions, etc), myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, etc) and some other "creepy crawly" types I can't recall.
And the occasional lungfish near water. The oceans (and some lakes) are a lot more diverse.
I do wonder if there are land snails and slugs.
btw, I figure colored bacterial mats may indicate some surface mineral deposits.
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Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-10-03 09:59 am (UTC)the "non-vascular plants" are kinda hard to picture. No roots, stems, etc, and maybe a couple inches tall.
Horsetails and ferns are easy. Fun fact: fresh horsetails are nature's firecrackers. Toss them in a fire and they go bang as the segments rupture from the steam pressure.
I forget what gets added to those in the late Devonian. Early trees, but not sure about types.
As for animals, there are insects (I think ants go that far back, but bees need to wait for flowering plants to come along). Arthopods (spiders, scorpions, etc), myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, etc) and some other "creepy crawly" types I can't recall.
And the occasional lungfish near water. The oceans (and some lakes) are a lot more diverse.
I do wonder if there are land snails and slugs.
btw, I figure colored bacterial mats may indicate some surface mineral deposits.
All in all a fun, creepy landscape.