Editing Paleozoic (section)

==Flora==
[[File:Devonianscene-green.jpg|thumb|An artist's impression of early land plants]]
While macroscopic plant life appeared early in the Paleozoic Era and possibly late in the Neoproterozoic Era of the earlier eon, plants mostly remained aquatic until the Silurian Period, about 420&nbsp;million years ago, when they began to transition onto dry land. Terrestrial flora reached its climax in the Carboniferous, when towering [[lycopsid]] rainforests dominated the tropical belt of [[Euramerica]]. [[Climate change]] caused the [[Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse]] which fragmented this habitat, diminishing the diversity of plant life in the late Carboniferous and Permian periods.<ref name=Sahney-Benton-Falcon-2010/>