Cambrian (538.8 +/-0.2 Ma)

Darstellung und Status

Farbe CMYK

50 / 20 / 65 / 0 (Commission for the Geological Map of the World)

Farbe RGB

R: 127 G: 160 B: 86

Rang

chronostratigraphische Periode / geochronologisches System

Gebrauch

Element ist in Gebrauch

Status

gültiger formeller Begriff

Nomenklatur

Deutsch

Kambrium

Français

Cambrien

Italiano

Cambriano

English

Cambrian (538.8 +/-0.2 Ma)

Herkunft des Namens

Derived from the Latinised form of the Welsh name Cymru (Wales).

Historische Varianten

--- (Sedgwick 1835-1836), Silurique inférieur = Cambrium (Mayer-Eymar 1888), Kambrium

Nomenklatorische Bemerkungen

From the Old Welsh combrog = compatriot.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the first part of his pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, the Trojan Brutus had three sons among whom (having subdued Gogmagog) he divided his lands after landing in Britain. His elder son, Locrinus, received the land between the rivers Humber and Severn, which he called Loegria (a Latinization of the Welsh name Lloegr, "England"). His second son, Albanactus, got the lands beyond the Humber, which took from him the name of Albany (Yr Alban in Welsh: Scotland). The younger son, Camber, was bequeathed everything beyond the Severn, which was called after him "Cambria".

Hierarchie und Abfolge

Untergeordnete Einheiten

• Furongian
• Miaolingian
• [Series 2]
• Terreneuvian

Hangendes

• Ordovician (485.4 +/-1.9 Ma)

Alter

Alter Top

• Kambrium

Alter Basis

• Kambrium