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Definitions of cambrian in various dictionaries:
noun - from 544 million to about 500 million years ago
noun - a native or resident of Wales
adj - of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language
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| The earliest period of the Paleozoic Era, it extends from about 542 to 488 million years ago |
| The oldest & largest division of geological time is the Pre-this |
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| (chiefly in names or geographical terms) Welsh. |
| Relating to or denoting the first period in the Palaeozoic era, between the end of the Precambrian aeon and the beginning of the Ordovician period. |
| from or referring to the period of time between about 543 and 490 million years ago, in which many different types of invertebrates ( animals with no back bone) first appeared: |
| the Cambrian period |
| from 544 million to about 500 million years ago marine invertebrates |
| a native or resident of Wales |
| of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language |
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| The Cambrian Period ( or ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 55.6 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 541 million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Ordovician Period 485.4 mya. Its subdivisions, and its base, are somewhat in flux. The period was established (as Cambrian series) by Adam Sedgwick, who named it after Cambria, the Latinised form of Cymru, the Welsh name for Wales, where Britain's Cambrian rocks are best exposed. The Cambrian is unique in its unusually high proportion of lagerstätte sedimentary deposits, sites of exceptional preservation where "soft" parts of organisms are preserved as well as their more resistant shells. As a result, our understanding of the Cambrian biology surpasses that of some later periods.The Cambrian marked a profound change in life on Earth; prior to the Cambrian, the majority of living organisms on the whole were small, unicellular and simple; the |