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Merioneth epoch
General
Lower boundary: 501 Ma
Lower boundary source: direct
Upper boundary: 490 Ma
Upper boundary source: direct
Continent: global
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Correlations
Period:
Cambrian
Epoch:
Furongian
10 million year bin: Cambrian 4
Previous interval
St Davids
Next intervals
Early/Lower Ordovician
Tremadoc
Overlaps with
Nganasanian
Mansian
Contains
Dolgellian
Maentwrogian
(shares lower boundary)
Appears in scales
Gradstein Cambrian Epochs of Harland
(2004)
Erwin and Bowring Cambrian Epochs
(2004)
Harland 4: Epochs
(1990)
Interval name:
Late/Upper
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early Late
Middle
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Early/Lower
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middle Early
early Early