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Geological Timescale for the Last 545 Million Years

Richard E. Young, Michael Vecchione, and Katharina M. Mangold (1922-2003)

Cephalopoda Glossary


ERA PERIOD When Period began
(millions of years ago)
Cenozoic Quaternary 1.8
Neogene 23.8
Paleogene 65.0
Mesozoic Cretaceous 142
Jurassic 205.7
Triassic 248.2
Paleozoic Permian 290
Carboniferous 354
Devonian 417
Silurian 443
Ordovician 495
Cambrian 545

Recent - The last 10,000 years in the geological timescale, also known as the Holocene Epoch, the most recent time-segment in the Quaternary Period. A Recent species is one existing today or, at least, sometime within the last 10,000 years.

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University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA


National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C. , USA

Katharina M. Mangold (1922-2003)
Laboratoire Arago, Banyuls-Sur-Mer, France

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