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The Cambrian is the earliest geological period of the Paleozoic Era, lasting about 52 million years from 538.8 to 486.85 million years ago. It marks the beginning of the Phanerozoic Eon, the time interval that encompasses all of Earth's history with visible life forms.
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- Geologic timespan.name
- Cambrian
- Geologic timespan.color
- Cambrian
- Geologic timespan.image_map
- Mollweide Paleographic Map of Earth, 510 Ma.png
- Geologic timespan.caption_map
- A map of Earth as it appeared 510 million years ago during the Cambrian Period, Series 2 epoch
- Geologic timespan.timeline
- Cambrian
- Geologic timespan.name_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.celestial_body
- Earth
- Geologic timespan.usage
- Global (ICS)
- Geologic timespan.timescales_used
- ICS Time Scale
- Geologic timespan.chrono_unit
- Period
- Geologic timespan.strat_unit
- System
- Geologic timespan.proposed_by
- Adam Sedgwick, 1835
- Geologic timespan.timespan_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.lower_boundary_def
- Appearance of the Ichnofossil Treptichnus pedum
- Geologic timespan.lower_gssp_location
- Fortune Head section, Newfoundland, Canada
- Geologic timespan.upper_boundary_def
- FAD of the Conodont Iapetognathus fluctivagus.
- Geologic timespan.upper_gssp_location
- Greenpoint section, Green Point, Newfoundland, Canada
- Geologic timespan.sea_level
- Rising steadily from 4 m to 90 m
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- Instance of
- system
- Has part
- Furongian
- Named after
- Cambria
- Followed by
- Ordovician
- Follows
- Ediacaran
- Image
- Cambrian Stromatolites from New York State.jpg
- Significant event
- Cambrian explosion
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- Commons category
- Cambrian
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 7FA056
- topic's main category
- Category:Cambrian
- start time
- 538800000-
- end time
- 486850000-
- named by
- Adam Sedgwick
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- type locality (geology)
- Fortune Head
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Palaeontology
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