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  1. Cambrian - Wikipedia

    Currently the boundaries of the Cambrian System, three series and six stages are defined by global stratotype sections and points. [1] The lower boundary of the Cambrian was originally …

  2. Cambrian Period - Fossils, Rocks, Animals | Britannica

    Oct 18, 2025 · Cambrian Period - Fossils, Rocks, Animals: Cambrian rocks have a special biological significance, because they are the earliest to contain diverse fossils of animals. …

  3. The Cambrian Period

    The Cambrian world was bracketed between two ice ages, one during the late Proterozoic and the other during the Ordovician. During these ice ages, the decrease in global temperature led to …

  4. Cambrian Period—541 to 485.4 MYA - U.S. National Park Service

    Jan 22, 2025 · The Cambrian Period marks an important point in the history of life on Earth; it is the time when many kinds of invertebrates and the first vertebrates—fishes—appeared in the …

  5. Cambrian Period - National Geographic

    Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. The …

  6. Cambrian - Wikiwand

    The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 51.95 million years from the end of the preceding...

  7. Cambrian - New World Encyclopedia

    The Cambrian period is divided into three epochs: The Early Cambrian (also Lower Cambrian, Caerfai, or Waucoban), the Middle Cambrian (St Davids or Albertian), and the Late Cambrian …

  8. The Cambrian - An Explosion of Life | Magazine | Davidson ...

    Nov 19, 2022 · During the Cambrian Period, which began about 541 million years ago and ended about 485 million years ago, a sudden wave of rapid increase in the diversity of biological …

  9. Cambrian Period | Natural History Museum

    Oct 28, 2012 · The Cambrian* Period begins the Phanerozoic Eon, the last 542 million years during which fossils with hard parts have existed. It is the first division of the Paleozoic Era …

  10. CAMBRIAN Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    In a study published in July, researchers from the University of Cambridge announced a first-of-its-kind discovery of thousands of microscopic fossils from the Cambrian period unearthed …