Palaeozoic

/ ˌpælɪəʊˈzəʊɪk /

adjective

1. of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period

noun

1. the Palaeozoic
   the Palaeozoic era

Word History and Origins

Origin of Palaeozoic¹

C19: from palaeo- + Greek zōē life + -ic

Example Sentences

The result is a history of life during this period, the early Palaeozoic era, that can pinpoint the rise and fall of species during diversifications and mass extinctions to within about 26,000 years.

From Nature

To improve on this, a team led by palaeontologist Jun-xuan Fan at Nanjing University in China created and analysed a database of fossil marine invertebrate species that were found in more than 3,000 layers of rock, mostly from China but representing geology across the planet during the early Palaeozoic.

From Nature

These ancestors of spiders and crabs lived in seas during the Palaeozoic era, between 541-251 million years ago.

From BBC

The fossil’s discovery in Morocco, outlined in a Nature article last week, sheds new light on arthropods from the palaeozoic era, or from about 542 million years ago to 251 million years ago.

From Time

"The number of species found in Switzerland and the from the Barents Sea suggest a rather high diversity and that the group might originate from the Early Triassic or the Late Palaeozoic era," he said.

From BBC