Publication at Faculty of Science |
2022
Abstract
The book with a paleontological theme will take us to the late Paleozoic period 330 - 295 million years before present, when the growing Gondwana glaciers and Variscan orogeny pushed the sea out of the Czech Republic, and trilobites released the spaces of tropical peat swamp forests dominated by arborescent lycopsids, horsetails and ferns inhabited by gigantic dragonflies and centipedes. The waters of the lakes and rivers ruled sharks and crocodile-like amphibians.
In the background of the formation of the Pangaea supercontinent and in the rhythm of climate change, the reader will learn how animals and plants have dealt with these events, and how the face of the landscape has changed over several million years.