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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Period start. It contains usage information, categories, and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
Usage
Use the syntax {{Period start|period name|rounding (optional)}}
{{Period start|Cretaceous}}
produces:
145
{{Period start|Cretaceous|-1}}
produces:
150
References
Periods from the International Commission on Stratigraphy's stratigraphical timescale.
Burgess shale age from Butterfield, N (2006). Hooking some stem-group "worms": fossil lophotrochozoans in the Burgess Shale. Bioessays 28, 1161–1166. Template:Doi.
Cambrian stages from Template:Doi
Mayanian dates from Khomentovsky (2008). Mayanian (1100–850 Ma) – Prebaikalian Upper Riphean of Siberia. Russian Geology and Geophysics 49 (1). Template:Doi.
Period templates
- Template:Next period
- Template:Period color
- Template:Period end
- Template:Period end error
- Template:Period infoboxes
- Template:Period span
- Template:Period span/brief
- Template:Period start
- Template:Period start error