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                                Proterozoic Eon
 
                       From 2500 +/- 0 To 542 +/- 0.3 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Fixed Date
  End Defined By:  Trace fossil, lowest occurrence of Treptichnus (Phycodes) 
     pedum.  Near base of negative carbon-isotope excursion.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
  End Based On:  Amthor et. al., "Extinction of Cloudinia and Namacalathus at 
     the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Oman", _Geology_, v. 31, p. 431-434, 
     2003.
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Chinese Stage: Wutaian (2600 - 2350)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Time: Precambrian (4567.17 - 542)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Eon:                 Archean    (3800 - 2500)
  Era:                 Neoarchean (2800 - 2500)
  South African Stage: Randian    (3000 - 2500)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Eon:                     Phanerozoic       (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:                     Paleozoic         (542 - 251)
  Period:                  Cambrian          (542 - 488.3)
  Epoch:                   Early Cambrian    (542 - 513)
  Chinese Stage:           Meishuchuan       (542 - 532)
  Russian-Kazakhian Stage: Nemakit-Daldynian (542 - 534)
 
 -- Contains the Following Eras --
  Era: Paleoproterozoic (2500 - 1600)
  Era: Mesoproterozoic  (1600 - 1000)
  Era: Neoproterozoic   (1000 - 542)
 

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