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Paleozoic

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Paleozoic [¦pāl·ē·ə¦zō·ik]
(geology)
The era of geologic time from the end of the Precambrian (600 million years before present) until the beginning of the Mesozoic era (225 million years before present).


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The researcher knew that some insects grow particularly large when reared in high-oxygen laboratories and that massive insects that lived during the prehistoric Paleozoic period vanished.
65 Mesozoic Createous Jurassic Triassic 248 Paleozoic Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian 543 Late Ediacaran NEWCOMER: Proterozoic Cryogenian The new period stretches from 600 to 544 million years ago.
``Morgan's'' plots harken back to the Paleozoic era of comedy, when cavemen were probably doing sitcoms: Tonight, his swaggering buffoonery nearly wrecks his shy son's date with a pretty schoolmate.
 
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