Timeline of Silurian research

This timeline of Silurian research is a chronological listing of events in the history of geology and paleontology focused on the study of Earth during the span of time lasting from 443.4–419.2 million years ago; the Silurian, and the legacies of this period in the rock and fossil records.

19th century

Eurypterus.

1825

• De Kay described the new genus Eurypterus

1835

• Roderick Murchison proposes the Silurian period based on outcrops in Wales and publishes On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems, Exhibiting the Order in which the Older Sedimentary Strata Succeed each other in England and Wales with Adam Sedgwick

1844

• Agassiz described the new genus Pterygotus

1859

• Dawson described the new genus Prototaxites

20th century

Cooksonia.

1937

• W. H. Lang described the new genus Cooksonia

1972

• Kjellesvig-Waering described the new genus Brontoscorpio

21st century

2010

• Gonez and Gerrienne emended genus Cooksonia described by W. H. Lang in 1937

See also

• History of paleontology
  • Timeline of paleontology
    • Timeline of Cambrian research
    • Timeline of Ordovician research
    • Timeline of Devonian research
    • Timeline of Carboniferous research
    • Timeline of Permian research