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    The Cambrian ( /ˈkæmbri.ən, ˈkeɪm-/ KAM-bree-ən, KAYM-) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted...
    89 KB (9,329 words) - 20:21, 11 November 2024
  • The Cambrian explosion (also known as Cambrian radiation or Cambrian diversification) is an interval of time beginning approximately 538.8 million years...
    134 KB (15,441 words) - 23:08, 8 November 2024
  • in 1838 to describe the Cambrian and Ordovician periods. It was redefined by John Phillips (1800–1874) in 1840 to cover the Cambrian to Permian periods...
    35 KB (3,711 words) - 04:51, 28 October 2024
  • current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon, which is named after Cambria...
    33 KB (3,531 words) - 20:44, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cambrian Railways
    The Cambrian Railways owned 230 miles (370 km) of track over a large area of mid Wales. The system was an amalgamation of a number of railways that were...
    16 KB (1,625 words) - 21:46, 17 September 2024
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    Phanerozoic Eon. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period 485.4 Ma (million years ago) to the start of the Silurian Period...
    81 KB (7,811 words) - 18:17, 11 November 2024
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    epoch and series of the Cambrian. It lasted from 497 to 485.4 million years ago. It succeeds the Miaolingian series of the Cambrian and precedes the Lower...
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  • Thumbnail for Cambrian Line
    The Cambrian Line (Welsh: Llinell y Cambrian), sometimes split into the Cambrian Main Line (Welsh: Prif Linell y Cambrian) and Cambrian Coast Line (Welsh:...
    35 KB (3,449 words) - 17:00, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tanat Valley Light Railway
    by the Cambrian Railways company enabled the building of the line. The company was always in debt and in 1921 was obliged to sell the line to the Cambrian...
    21 KB (2,545 words) - 22:03, 3 September 2024
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    Cambrian Series 2 is the unnamed 2nd series of the Cambrian. It lies above the Terreneuvian series and below the Miaolingian. Series 2 has not been formally...
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  • Thumbnail for Cambrian Heritage Railways
    The Cambrian Heritage Railways is a heritage railway company, trust and society based at both Llynclys and Oswestry in its restored Oswestry railway station...
    21 KB (2,581 words) - 16:49, 21 October 2024
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    The Miaolingian is the third Series of the Cambrian Period, and was formally named in 2018. It lasted from about 509 to 497 million years ago and is divided...
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  • Road railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway section of the Cambrian Railways. Despite being only 6 miles 63 chains (10.9 km) long, there...
    17 KB (2,096 words) - 21:52, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ediacaran biota
    biodiversity known as the Cambrian explosion. Most of the currently existing body plans of animals first appeared in the fossil record of the Cambrian rather than...
    105 KB (11,023 words) - 19:25, 24 September 2024
  • was worked by the Cambrian Railways effectively as part of that company's system. Wrexham was then the largest town served by the Cambrian Railways. Whitchurch...
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  • Thumbnail for Terreneuvian
    The Terreneuvian is the lowermost and oldest series of the Cambrian geological system. Its base is defined by the first appearance datum of the trace fossil...
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  • Thumbnail for Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event
    years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event, also known as the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary event, was an extinction...
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    most ancient taxons. Chordate fossils have been found from as early as the Cambrian explosion over 539 million years ago. Of the more than 81,000 living...
    58 KB (5,253 words) - 12:41, 9 November 2024
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    typically only found in exceptionally preserved deposits, mostly during the Cambrian period. The exact relationships of artiopods to other arthropods is uncertain...
    111 KB (11,936 words) - 06:30, 13 November 2024
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    of the Cambrian period, 550 million years ago. The evolution of a mineralised exoskeleton is considered a possible driving force of the Cambrian explosion...
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