Biology as Poetry: Paleontology

Bacteriophage Ecology Group

Massive Diversification of Animal Phyla

Cambrian period, ~540 to ~490 million years ago.

This massive diversification of animal phyla is otherwise known as the Cambrian explosion.

The diversification defines the start of the Paleozoic era as well as the Phanerozoic eon.

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