{"id":505,"date":"2011-02-02T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T00:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/"},"modified":"2011-09-27T06:13:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T09:13:57","slug":"cambrian-period","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?page_id=505","title":{"rendered":"Cambrian (Period)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cambrian is the first subdivision of the <a title=\"Palaeozoic Era\" href=\"https:\/\/34.32.27.218\/glossary\/p\/palaeozoic-era\/\">Palaeozoic<\/a> Era (542\u00b11.0 to 448.3\u00b11.7 Ma). Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 \u2013 27 January 1873) first proposed the Cambrian period of the geological timescale. The name is derived from the word &#8220;Cambria&#8221;, the Latin for Wales, where some of the best rock exposures for the Cambrian in Britain are exposed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static.palaeontologyonline.com\/2009ICSChart_Cambrian.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-559\" title=\"International Stratigraphic Chart 2009 - Cambrian\" src=\"http:\/\/static.palaeontologyonline.com\/2009ICSChart_Cambrian.png\" alt=\"International Stratigraphic Chart 2009 - Cambrian\" width=\"319\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009ICSChart_Cambrian.png 319w, https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009ICSChart_Cambrian-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">International Stratigraphic Chart 2009 - Cambrian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Related Articles\/Pages:<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Link: International Stratigraphic Chart 2009\" href=\"https:\/\/34.32.27.218\/style-guide\/international-stratigraphic-chart-2009\/\">International Stratigraphic Chart 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cambrian is the first subdivision of the Palaeozoic Era (542\u00b11.0 to 448.3\u00b11.7 Ma). Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 \u2013 27 January 1873) first proposed the Cambrian period of the geological timescale. The name is derived from the word &#8220;Cambria&#8221;, the Latin for Wales, where some of the best rock exposures for the Cambrian in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":343,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions\/1153"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}