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Life’s changing world: the PhanerozoicLife’s changing world: the Phanerozoic. A detailed geological framework for the last 539 million years, from the Cambrian diversification to the present.

Cambrian

Fortunian

Paleozoic

Phanerozoic

Terreneuvian

Stage 2

Series 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Miaolingian

Wuliuan

Drumian

Guzhangian

Furongian

Paibian

Jiangshanian

Stage 10

Early Ordovician

Ordovician

Tremadocian

Floian

Dapingian

Middle Ordovician

Darriwilian

Late Ordovician

Sandbian

Katian

Hirnantian

Llandovery

Rhuddanian

Silurian

Aeronian

Telychian

Sheinwoodian

Wenlock

Homerian

Gorstian

Ludlow

Ludfordian

Devonian

Early Devonian

Lochkovian

Pragian

Emsian

Eifelian

Middle Devonian

Givetian

Frasnian

Late Devonian

Famennian

Carboniferous

Early Mississippian

Mississippian

Tournaisian

Middle Mississippian

Visean

Late Mississippian

Serpukhovian

Bashkirian

Early Pennsylvanian

Pennsylvanian

Middle Pennsylvanian

Moscovian

Kasimovian

Late Pennsylvanian

Gzhelian

Asselian

Cisuralian

Permian

Sakmarian

Artinskian

Kungurian

Guadalupian

Roadian

Wordian

Capitanian

Lopingian

Wuchiapingian

Changhsingian

Early Triassic

Induan

Mesozoic

Triassic

Olenekian

Anisian

Middle Triassic

Ladinian

Carnian

Late Triassic

Norian

Rhaetian

Early Jurassic

Hettangian

Jurassic

Sinemurian

Pliensbachian

Toarcian

Aalenian

Middle Jurassic

Bajocian

Bathonian

Callovian

Late Jurassic

Oxfordian

Kimmeridgian

Tithonian

Berriasian

Cretaceous

Early Cretaceous

Valanginian

Hauterivian

Barremian

Aptian

Albian

Cenomanian

Late Cretaceous

Turonian

Coniacian

Santonian

Campanian

Maastrichtian

Cenozoic

Danian

Paleocene

Paleogene

Selandian

Thanetian

Eocene

Ypresian

Lutetian

Bartonian

Priabonian

Oligocene

Rupelian

Chattian

Miocene

Neogene

Aquitanian

Burdigalian

Langhian

Serravallian

Tortonian

Messinian

Pliocene

Zanclean

Piacenzian

Gelasian

Pleistocene

Quaternary

Calabrian

Chibanian

Late Pleistocene

Greenlandian

Holocene

Northgrippian

Meghalayan

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