ammonites

Begadean epoch

General information
Lower boundary: equal to 542 Ma (based on Early/Lower Cambrian)
Upper boundary: before 520 Ma (based on Tommotian)
Continent: North America
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Key correlations
Period: Cambrian
Epoch: Early/Lower Cambrian
Previous intervals
  • Sinian
  • Vendian
  • Ediacara
  • Proterozoic
  • Neoproterozoic
  • Ediacaran
    • Next intervals
  • Atdabanian
  • Llanbedr
  • Branchian
    • Shares base with
  • Cambrian, Diandongian, Early/Lower Cambrian, Jinnigian, Manykaian, Meishucunian, Nemakit-Daldynian, Paleozoic, Phanerozoic, Placentian
    • Shares top with
  • Tommotian
    • Overlaps with
  • Caerfai (530.0 to 513.0 Ma)
  • Waucoban (530.0 to 513.0 Ma)
  • Dolwen (530.0 to 516.0 Ma)
  • Montezuman (530.0 to 516.0 Ma)
  • Poundian (580.0 to 530.0 Ma)
    • Appears in scale
  • Gradstein Cambro-Ordovician Series of Laurentia (2004)

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