About The Word Ordovician
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Ordovician
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What's The Definition Of Ordovician?
[n] from 425 million to 500 million years ago; conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ordovician: Ordovician period Related Terms | Find terms related to Ordovician: See Also | geological period | Paleozoic | Paleozoic era | period Ordovician In Webster's Dictionary \Or`do*vi"cian\, a. [From L. Ordovices, a Celtic
people in Wales.] (Geol.)
Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation,
corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most
authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. -- n. The Ordovician
formation.
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