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Payntonian

Payntonian proper noun: an age from 491 to 488.3 ± 1.7 million years ago, a subdivision of the Cambrian.

Proper noun

the Payntonian

  1. An age from 491 to 488.3 ± 1.7 million years ago, a subdivision of the Cambrian.

Questions about Payntonian

What does Payntonian mean?
Payntonian means an age from 491 to 488.3 ± 1.7 million years ago, a subdivision of the Cambrian.
What part of speech is Payntonian?
Payntonian is a proper noun.

Words near Payntonian in the dictionary

  1. paynizes
  2. paynizing
  3. Paynter
  4. Paynters
  5. Paynton
  6. Payntonian
  7. paynym
  8. paynyms
  9. PAYO
  10. payoff
  11. payoff function

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