Period (geology)
subdivision of geological time; shorter than an era and longer than an epoch From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A period in geology is a main subunit of an era.
Thus the Mesozoic era is divided into three periods: the Triassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. These periods are then further subdivided into epochs.
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