Template:Period start

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Usage

Use the syntax {{Period start|period name|rounding (optional)}}

{{Period start|Cretaceous}}

produces:

145

{{Period start|Cretaceous|-1}}

produces:

150

Related pages

• Template:Period start error
• Template:Period end
• Template:Period color
• Template:Next period

References

• Periods from the International Commission on Stratigraphy's stratigraphical timescale.
• Burgess shale age from Butterfield, Nicholas J.. Hooking some stem-group “worms”: fossil lophotrochozoans in the Burgess Shale. BioEssays 28 (12) (December 2006). p. 1161–1166. doi:10.1002/bies.20507.
• Cambrian stages from English, Adam M.. Census of the Indian Springs Lagerstätte, Poleta Formation (Cambrian), western Nevada, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 295 (1-2) (September 2010). p. 236–244. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.041.
• Mayanian dates from Khomentovsky, V. Mayanian (1100–850 Ma) – Prebaikalian Upper Riphean of Siberia. Russian Geology and Geophysics 49 (1) (2008). p. 1. doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2007.12.001.