Stockings were usually black for daytime wear and white or colored for evening. They were held up by garters. By the end of the century, the garters were attached to the corset. Cotton drawers went over the stockings.
Cephalopods include squid, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus, spirula, and the extinct ammonites and belemnites. Cephalopods first appear in the fossil record nearly 500 million ago during the Ordovician Period. They are all mollusks, members of the same Phylum Mollusca as oysters, conches, and the common garden snail.
Quick Answer. Plant life first appeared on land during the Ordovician period, between 495 and 443 million years BCE. One 2001 study from Penn State University claims that plants and fungi first appeared on land 700 million years BCE, but this has not yet become accepted by the larger scientific community. Continue Reading.