Discovery Miracle Planet Disc 3: New Frontiers (2005)

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4:10 Placoderms had jaws and dominated our Osteichthyans ancestors (Devonian period 410 MYA, French National Museum of Natural History) 5:30 Lobe-finned fish sought alternatives on land 7:15 Caledonian Mountains formed from clash of Baltica and Laurentia continents along Iapetus Sea 430 MYA (Sognefjord, Norway to Monreith Bay, Scotland)
9:30 Southern tipf collision is in east U.S. 12:45 Plant fossils from first known forest 370 MYA (Red Hill, Pennsylvania, was foothills of ancient Caledonian Range) 13:30 Archaeopteris cast shade and shed needle-like leaves, providing food and shelter
19:00Armored Pleco 19:00Predatory Arowana 21:45 Lungfish can breath air (Amazon)
23:15 Fish lung developed from swelling of esophagus 24:25Modern fish lung developed into air bladder 24:30 Tetrapod fossil 360 MYA:
24:50Air-breathing Acanthostega had 8 fingers; its limbs cannot bend and bear weight, but can move through weedy shallow water (east Greenland) 30:00 Hyneria tooth : freshwater predator may have driven other Acanthodian fish to shallow water (Red Hill, Pennsylvania) 34:00 Spotted Handfish (Australia)
37:50 Pederpes was earliest known animal to walk on land 348 MYA (foot of Caledonia mountains, west coast of ireland) 41:00 Dinocephalian were mammal-like reptiles that dominated land 250 MYA, became extinct (Great Karoo, South Africa) 44:15 Therapsid
45:00 Cynodont was distant ancestor of mammals 45:30 "Last pool" : 95% of Permian species became extinct, perhaps due to global warming   
Placodermi
4:10 Placoderms
Eusthenopteron
5:30 Lobe-finned fish
Caledonian
7:15 Caledonian Mountains
Caledonian
9:30 Southern tipf collision is in east U.S.
Plant fossils
12:45 Plant fossils
Archaeopteris
13:30 Archaeopteris
Hypostomus plecostomus
19:00 Pleco
Osteoglossidae
19:00 Arowana
Dipnoi
21:45 Lungfish
Fish lung
23:15 Fish lung
air bladder
24:25 air bladder
Tetrapod fossil
24:30 Tetrapod fossil
Acanthostega
24:50 Acanthostega
Hyneria
30:00 Hyneria tooth
Brachionichthys hirsutus
34:00 Spotted Handfish
Pederpes
37:50 Pederpes
Dinocephalia
41:00 Dinocephalian
Therapsid
44:15 Therapsid
Cynodont
45:00 Cynodont
Permian fossils
45:30 "Last pool"
 

Index Feb 21, 2010 CC BY 4.0 Peter Chen 2.0