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Cambrian period

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Noun1.Cambrian period - from 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates
Paleozoic, Paleozoic era - from 544 million to about 230 million years ago


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The Cambrian period (543-490 million years ago) saw an evolutionary explosion that produced most of the major animal groups we know today.
The Paleozoic Era is seen in the fossil record as an explosion of life forms The Cambrian Period marks the beginning of an era with thousands of new life forms in the ancient seas The Paleozoic Era is seen in the fossil record as an explosion of life forms.
The rocks bearing the fossils were deposited on an ocean bottom about 520 million years ago during the Cambrian period.
 
 
 
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