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About 539 million years ago, at the base of the Cambrian, animal life diversifies in the seas: most of the major body plans appear within some twenty million years.
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- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / OBSERVATION; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — Edna Winti, trilobite fossils, Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park · CC BY 2.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trilobite_fossils,_Burgess_Shale,_Yoho_National_Park.jpg
- SourcesFOSSIL / STRATIGRAPHY — base of the Cambrian, 538.8 ± 0.2 Myr (International Commission on Stratigraphy, chart 2023)
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