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Ordovician
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Ordovician
of, denoting, or formed in the second period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Cambrian and Silurian periods, which lasted for 45 000 000 years during which marine invertebrates flourished

Ordovician [‚ȯrd·ə′vish·ən]
(geology)
The second period of the Paleozoic era, above the Cambrian and below the Silurian, from approximately 500 million to 440 million years ago.


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