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ShareThe Cambrian is a major division of the geologic timescale that begins about 542 Ma (million years ago) at the end of the Proterozoic eon and ended about 488.3 Ma with the beginning of the Ordovician period (ICS, 2004).
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It is the first period of the Paleozoic era of the Phanerozoic eon.
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