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("Middle Cambrian" Epoch)
CAMBRIAN PERIOD Cambrian Stages 6-7
("menevian" Age)

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The Menevian

The Menevian Age of the Middle Cambrian Epoch: 507 to 501 million years ago


Paleozoic
   Cambrian
      Terreneuvian
      Cambrian Epoch 2
      Middle Cambrian
          Amgan
         Menevian
      Furongian  
         Paiban  
         Cambrian Stage IX
         Dolgellian         		 



Biota of the Burgess Shale Lagerstätten:
sponges Vanuxia (1), Choia (2), Pirania (3); brachiopods Nisusia (4); polychaetes Burgessochaeta (5); priapulid worms Ottia (6), Louisella (7); trilobites Olenoides (8); other arthropods Sidneyia (9), Leanchoilia (10), Marella (11), Canadaspis (12), Molaria (13), Burgessia (14), Yohoia (15), Waptia (16), Aysheaia (17); molluscs Scenella (18); echinoderms Echmatocrinus (19); chordates Pikaia (20); along with Haplophrentis (21), Opabina (22), lophophorate Dinomischus (23), proto-annelid Wiwaxia (24), and anomalocarid Laggania cambria (25).
from The Fossils of the Burgess Shales, by Briggs, Erwin and Collier, 1994)
 
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