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    The Cryogenian (from Ancient Greek: κρύος, romanized: krýos, meaning "cold" and γένεσις, romanized: génesis, meaning "birth") is a geologic period that...
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    Snowball Earth (category Cryogenian)
    glaciation is believed to have occurred sometime before 650 mya during the Cryogenian period. Proponents of the hypothesis argue that it best explains sedimentary...
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    Precambrian Supereon and the Proterozoic Eon; it is subdivided into the Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran periods. It is preceded by the Mesoproterozoic Era and...
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    Cretaceous and Paleogene systems/periods. For divisions prior to the Cryogenian, arbitrary numeric boundary definitions (Global Standard Stratigraphic...
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    Animal (category Cryogenian first appearances)
    within Bilateria. Animals first appear in the fossil record in the late Cryogenian period, and diversified in the subsequent Ediacaran. Earlier evidence...
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    by the Stenian Period of the Mesoproterozoic Era and followed by the Cryogenian. Rifting leading to the breakup of supercontinent Rodinia, which had formed...
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    Demosponge (category Cryogenian first appearances)
    demosponges may have appeared during the Precambrian deposits at the end of the Cryogenian "Snowball Earth" period. Their presence has been indirectly detected by...
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    the Paleoproterozoic) and the hypothesized Snowball Earth (during the Cryogenian period in the late Neoproterozoic); and the Ediacaran period (635 to 538...
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  • Marinoan glaciation (category Cryogenian)
    (million years ago). It ended approximately 632.3 ± 5.9 Ma during the Cryogenian period. This glaciation possibly covered the entire planet, in an event...
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  • Rodinia (category Cryogenian)
    global climate around 717–635 Ma (the so-called Snowball Earth of the Cryogenian period) and the rapid evolution of primitive life during the subsequent...
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    analysis has supported the view that before the Cambrian radiation, in the Cryogenian or Tonian, animals (metazoans) evolved monophyletically from a single...
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    the Neoproterozoic era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian period at 635 Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian period at 538.8 Mya...
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  • Sturtian glaciation (category Cryogenian)
    The Sturtian glaciation was a worldwide glaciation during the Cryogenian Period when the Earth experienced repeated large-scale glaciations. As of January 2023[update]...
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    Hallmann C, Hoshino Y, Liyanage T (August 2017). "The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals". Nature. 548 (7669): 578–581. Bibcode:2017Natur...
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    Stenian. It would last into the Tonian period before breaking up in the Cryogenian. This period includes the formation of the Keweenawan Rift at about 1100...
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    Cryogenian ice age*...
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  • it from 538.8 to 635 Ma. In this period the Ediacaran biota appeared. Cryogenian: The middle period in the Neoproterozoic Era: 635-720 Ma. Tonian: the...
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  • Late Tonian, between the end of the Boring Billion and the onset of the Cryogenian “Snowball Earth”, marine deposits record a very significant positive carbon...
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    have been at least five major ice ages in Earth's history (the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, late Paleozoic, and the latest Quaternary Ice Age). Outside...
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    glaciations occurred. The most recent snowball Earth took place during the Cryogenian period and consisted of two global glaciation events known as the Sturtian...
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  • periods in Earth's climate history, which are known as the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Late Paleozoic, and Late Cenozoic glaciations. The main...
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    Cryogenian ice age*...
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    Neoproterozoic (539 Ma–1 Ga) Ediacaran (539–635 Ma) Cryogenian (635–720 Ma) Tonian (720 Ma–1 Ga) Mesoproterozoic (1–1.6 Ga) Stenian (1–1.2 Ga) Ectasian...
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    Cryogenian ice age*...
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  • Varanger may refer to: Varanger Peninsula of Norway Cryogenian (also called Varanger glaciation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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    Phytoplankton | News | University of Bristol". "The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals – ResearchGate". Jin, Xin; Shi, Zhiqiang;...
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    Otavia (category Cryogenian life)
    were found. The oldest fossils are from the Tonian period, before the Cryogenian glaciations, but the latest found were from the Nama Group rocks, which...
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    Invertebrates Temporal range: Cryogenian to Present, 665–0 Ma Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had. Left to right: Chrysaora fuscescens (Cnidaria), Fromia indica...
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    Cryogenian ice age*...
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  • ocean. Geologic evidence suggests that the middle Neoproterozoic, the Cryogenian period, was an extreme ice age so intense that Mirovia may have been completely...
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