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Ordovician System
Ordovician System The Ordovician Period began 485.4 million years ago and ended 443.8 million years ago.

Dapingian Stage

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Dapingian Stage, first of two internationally defined stages of the Middle Ordovician Series, encompassing all rocks deposited during the Dapingian Age (470 million to 467.3 million years ago) of the Ordovician Period. In 2007 the International Commission on Stratigraphy established the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) defining the base of this unit in the shale of the Dawan Formation at the centre of the Ordovician Geopark near Huanghuachang, Hubei, China. The GSSP marks the first appearance of the conodont Baltoniodus triangularis in the fossil record. In addition, the first appearance of the chitinozoan (a type of marine plankton) believed ...(100 of 127 words)

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