1. Coprolites are fossilized feces or dung of animals and occur quite abundantly throughout the Phanerozoic

2. The young Nd model ages suggest a significant crustal growth in the period of Neoproterozoic-Phanerozoic.

3. The Cambrian* Period begins the Phanerozoic Eon, the last 542 million years during which fossils with hard parts have existed

4. 22 The development and evolution of Qinling-Dabie orogenic belt is quite similar to the formation and splitting of the Pangea since Phanerozoic eon.

5. The Cambrian period is the first or earliest of 6 periods making up the Paleozoic era within the Phanerozoic eon, which includes the present time

6. The continuity of pericratonic rocks west of the miogeocline and the occurrence of Proterozoic cratonic rocks at the surface west of the Okanagan Valley show that the ancient continental margin extends into a region where most of the crustal lithosphere was until now thought to consist of accreted Phanerozoic arc and accretionary complexes.