Miaolingian
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The Miaolingian or Mid-Late Cambrian is the third Series of the Cambrian Period, and was formally named in 2018. It lasted from about to million years ago and is divided in ascending order into 3 stages: the Wuliuan, Drumian, and Guzhangian. The Miaolingian is preceded by the unnamed Cambrian Series 2 and succeeded by the Furongian series.
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- Miaolingian
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- Miaolingian
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- ~
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- Mollweide Paleographic Map of Earth, 505 Ma (Wuliuan Stage).png
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- A map of Earth as it appeared 505 million years ago during the Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage
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- Cambrian
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- Formal
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- Cambrian Series 3
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- earth
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- Global (ICS)
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- ICS Time Scale
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- Epoch
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- Series
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- Formal
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- FAD of the Trilobite Oryctocephalus indicus.
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- Wuliu-Zengjiayan, Guizhou, China
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- FAD of the Trilobite Glyptagnostus reticulatus
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- Paleontology
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The Miaolingian or Mid-Late Cambrian is the third Series of the Cambrian Period, and was formally named in 2018. It lasted from about to million years ago and is divided in ascending order into 3 stages: the Wuliuan, Drumian, and Guzhangian. The Miaolingian is preceded by the unnamed Cambrian Series 2 and succeeded by the Furongian series.
It is named after the Miaoling Mountains in southeastern Guizhou Province, China.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miaolingian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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