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Cambrian vs Graptolite - What's the difference?

cambrian | graptolite |

As nouns the difference between cambrian and graptolite

is that cambrian is (geology) the cambrian period while graptolite is any of a group of extinct aquatic colonial invertebrates, of the class graptolithina , from the cambrian and carboniferous periods.

As an adjective cambrian

is (geology) of a geologic period within the paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and furongian epochs from about 542 to 490 million years ago.

cambrian

English

Adjective

(wikipedia Cambrian) (en adjective)
  • (geology) of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and Furongian epochs from about 542 to 490 million years ago
  • of, or relating to Wales

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) the Cambrian period
  • a Welsh person

    • See also

    *

    graptolite

    English

    (wikipedia graptolite)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of a group of extinct aquatic colonial invertebrates, of the class Graptolithina , from the Cambrian and Carboniferous periods
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 70:
  • *:The samples were black shale, and on the shales were some ancient fossils called graptolites .

    • See also

    * sicula * prosicula * rhabdosome