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Table 8.1 The authors of various divisions of the geological column, and
the dates the terminology was first used.
Era
Period
Epoch
Date Author
Cenozoic
1840 John Phillips
[Quaternary
1829 Jules Desnoyers]
Neogene
1853 M. H ยจ rnes
Holocene
1867 Paul Gervais
Pleistocene
1839 Charles Lyell
[Tertiary
1760 Giovanni Arduino]
Pliocene
1833 Charles Lyell
Miocene
1833 Charles Lyell
Paleogene
1866 C. F. Naumann
Oligocene
1854 Heinrich von Beyrich
Eocene
1833 Charles Lyell
Paleocene
1874 Philipp Wilhelm
Schimper
Mesozoic
1840 John Phillips
Cretaceous
1822 Omalius d'Halloy
Jurassic
1795 Alexander von
Humboldt
1839 Leopold von Buch
Triassic
1834 Friedrich August von
Alberti
Palaeozoic
1838 Adam Sedgwick
Permian
1841 Roderick Murchison
Carboniferous
1822 William Conybeare
and William
Phillips
Pennsylvanian 1891 Henry Shaler
Williams
Mississippian 1869 Alexander Winchell
Devonian
1839 Adam Sedgwick and
Roderick
Murchison
