Cryptozoic

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. An eon or other time period before the Cambrian, when the fossils of hard-shelled animals first appeared in the geological record. archaic

词源

From crypto- + -zoic, as any life from the period was considered to be hidden from scientific examination.
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