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The Ordovician (/ɔːrdəˈvɪʃi.ən, -doʊ-, -ˈvɪʃən/ or-də-VISH-ee-ən, -doh-, -VISH-ən) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Ordovician spans 43.75 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period 486.85 Ma (million years ago) to the start of the…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Ordovician | Celestial body | Earth | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Chronological unit | Period | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | First proposed by | Charles Lapworth, 1879 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Lower boundary definition | FAD of the Conodont Iapetognathus fluctivagus | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Lower boundary GSSP | Greenpoint section, Green Point, Newfoundland, Canada .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Lower GSSP ratified | January 2000: 19 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Name formality | Formal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Name ratified | 1960 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Regional usage | Global (ICS) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Sea level above present day | 180 m; rising to 220 m in Caradoc and falling sharply to 141 m in end-Ordovician glaciations | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Stratigraphic unit | System | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Time scale(s) used | ICS Time Scale | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Time span formality | Formal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Upper boundary definition | FAD of the Graptolite Akidograptus ascensus | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Upper boundary GSSP | Dob's Linn, Moffat, U.K. 55°26′24″N 3°16′12″W / 55.4400°N 3.2700°W / 55.4400; -3.2700 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ordovician | Upper GSSP ratified | 1984 | 1.00 | infobox |
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