1. paleozoic - Noun
2. paleozoic - Adjective
3. Paleozoic - Proper noun
Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere was a moist, fertile, decaying sort of odor in the air. Florida was the sort of place that always seemed to be threatening to slip out of time and go back to the Paleozoic where it belonged. The light was a tawny gold filtered through a fragmented wall of green. Robert Sheckley
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time. Langdon Smith
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even then. Langdon Smith
Fauna A noteworthy feature of Paleozoic life is the sudden appearance of nearly all of the invertebrate animal phyla in great abundance at the beginning of the Cambrian. Source: Internet
Gold and silver mineralization is associated with northwest trending and steep westerly dipping structures in Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. Source: Internet
Bryozoans are among the three dominant groups of Paleozoic fossils. citation The oldest species with a mineralized skeleton occurs in the Lower Ordovician. Source: Internet