DINOSAURS AND THE HISTORY OF LIFE
GEOLOGY V1001X

SOME TIME SCALE ACRONYMS SUPPLIED BY STUDENTS
Time Scale Student 1 Student 2 Student 3
Cambrian Ceratopsians Columbia Campbell's
Ordovician Often Offers Onion
Silurian Sit Several Soup
Devonian Down Different Destroys
Carboniferous * Creakily Classes My-Private
Permian Perhaps Pertaining Parts
Triassic Their To
Jurassic Joints Judeo-
Cretaceous Cramp Christian
Tertiary Terribly Theological
Quaternary Quickly Questions

* For advanced students: The Carboniferous Period is often divided into
Mississippian and Pennsylvanian.


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