What's the difference between eophyte and silurian?
Eophyte
Definition:
(n.) A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.
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Silurian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.
(n.) The Silurian age.
Example Sentences:
(1) – Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous … 'What will survive of us is love', wrote Philip Larkin.
(2) Recent work on Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous terrestrial assemblages has provided plausible evidence for all major groups of extant fungi in the Paleozoic.
(3) Silurian vertebrates occur in southern, eastern and western parts of the country and are familiar from horizons as low as Llandovery.
(4) Hitching library had a copy and the library service sent a request stating that there was a boy in Chorleywood eager to know more about Silurians and Seeds of Doom.
(5) The spatial arrangement of the vertical canals is already present in fossil ostracoderms, and is also exemplified in lampreys, the modern forms of once abundant agnathan species that populated the Silurian and Devonian oceans.
(6) A review of the vertebrates within the Silurian and Devonian of China suggests a more detailed picture of palaeobiogeographical distribution than previously possible.