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The Cambrian Period witnessed the most rapid and widespread diversification of life in Earth's history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most modern phyla first appeared. Fish, arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, and synapsids all evolved during the Paleozoic. Life began in the ocean but eventually transitioned onto land, and by the late Paleozoic, it was dominated by various forms of organisms.
Trilobite fossil from the Cambrian Period. Photo Credit: Archbob. The first period in the Paleozoic Era is known as the Cambrian Period. Many of the ancestors of the species that have evolved into what we know today first came into existence during the Cambrian Explosion in the early Cambrian Period.