What would california have been like in the late paleozoic?

According to research the colifornia contains rocks that date from the age of the precambrian to the most recent. so during the paleozoic era, the colifornia is submerge but only by swallow sea. the colifonia sea at that time is living ground of marine invertebrates

Answerhighlands and forests;

It's between the sagittarius and perseus arms of the milky way.