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Cambrian

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Cambrian
of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
Cambrian [′kam·brē·ən]
(geology)
The lowest geologic system that contains abundant fossils of animals, and the first (earliest) geologic period of the Paleozoic era from 570 to 500 million years ago.
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As we sailed in to Langa-Langa, the British cruiser, the Cambrian, steamed out from the shelling of a village.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
And--oh yes, a war vessel's in the group, the Cambrian.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes and evolutions for that which I have seen with my own eyes in this brief interval of time--things that no other mortal eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so long dead that even in the lowest Cambrian stratum no trace of it remains.
The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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