kambrianischen

Kambrianischen is the inflected form of the German adjective kambrianisch, used to describe things related to the Cambrian period or to rocks, fossils, and stratigraphic units of Cambrian age. In geology and paleontology the term appears in phrases such as kambrianische Schichten, kambrianische Fossilien, or kambrianische Gesteine, and its form changes to fit the grammatical case and number of the noun it modifies.

The Cambrian period is the first period of the Paleozoic Era, spanning roughly 541 to 485 million years ago. The name Cambrian derives from Cambria, the Latin name for Wales, where early Cambrian rocks were studied. In German usage, the period is called Kambrium, and the corresponding adjective kambrianisch is used to describe elements dating to that time. The inflected form kambrianischen appears in sentences referring to plural nouns or to specific grammatical cases, for example "kambrianischen Schichten" or "kambrianischen Fossilien."

In stratigraphy, Cambrian rocks are commonly subdivided into Unteres Kambrium (Lower Cambrian), Mittleres Kambrium (Middle Cambrian), and Oberes Kambrium (Upper Cambrian). The kambrianisch descriptor is also applied to lithologies and fossil assemblages characteristic of this interval. A key feature of the period is the Cambrian explosion, a rapid diversification of multicellular life that produced a variety of early animal body plans, and which is extensively documented in Cambrian-aged strata around the world.

See also: Cambrium, Kambrium, kambrianische Gesteine, Unteres Kambrium, Mittleres Kambrium, Oberes Kambrium.