Zero parallel location during the Cambrian drifts assemble and break her up Silurian volcanism reforming Laurasia they are coiled close together Iapetus rafts terranes to be added back Neo-Tethys pushes them across the Equator microcontinents and blocks amalgamate unknown if they originated on her shores lycopods invade and dominate the tropics terrestrial pteridophytes colonize rapidly Baragwanathia flora occurs in two strata replaced by Archaeopteris and giant moss Rheic closure, ocean currents reroute Gondwana rotates clockwise, Australia shifts south to more temperate coordinates coal-forming forests form from ice melting now petrified voltziaelan conifers evolve extinct glossopterids reach peak diversity plant-vertebrate-insect ecosystem results hexapods codevelop, therapsids arrive