Talk:Paleozoic
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anyone know who defined the eras and when?.
- Moved from article Dittaeva 14:15, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Geological Eras arose from consensus among Geologists and Palæntologists. Various people defined the periods and shorter timescales over hundreds of years. Mostly, the names are placenames whence one finds the rocks originally used for defining the era (many exceptions exist to this rule of thumb). Ŭalabio 00:20, 2004 Oct 6 (UTC)
somebody should put the greek or latin meanings of paleo ? and zoic = life at the beginning of entrys such as this one (ie scientific ones) it is muyy helpful
- Palæo means old. These are the geological eras and their meaning:
- Proterozoic
- Protolife
- Palæozoic
- Old Life
- Mesozoic
- Middle Life
- Cenozoic
- Recent Life.
Ŭalabio 00:20, 2004 Oct 6 (UTC)
