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- Key People:
- Jakob Johannes Sederholm
- Related Topics:
- Archean Eon Proterozoic Eon fossil Ediacara fauna Hadean Eon
Precambrian, period of time extending from about 4.6 billion years ago (the point at which Earth began to form) to the beginning of the Cambrian Period, 541 million years ago. The Precambrian encompasses the Archean and Proterozoic eons, which are formal geologic intervals that lasted from 4 billion to about 541 million years ago, and the Hadean Eon, which is an informal interval spanning from 4.6 billion to 4 billion years ago. The Precambrian represents more than 80 percent of the total geologic record. All life-forms were long assumed to have originated in the Cambrian, and therefore all earlier rocks ...(100 of 10915 words)