After International Comission on Stratigraphy, 2004

Alternative, older, timetable after Bowring, Grotzinger, Isachsen, Knoll, Pelechaty & Kolosov, 1993

Period

Epoch

Age

ended:

becan:

C
A
M
B
R
I
A
N

Furongian
[Late Cambrian]

not defined 488.3 ± 1.7 Ma not defined

Paibian

not defined 501.0 ± 2.0 Ma

Middle Cambrian

not defined

501.0 ± 2.0 Ma not defined

not defined

not defined 513.0 ± 2.0 Ma

Early Cambrian

not defined

513.0 ± 2.0 Ma not defined

not defined

not defined 542.0 ± 1.0 Ma

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