found: Work cat.: Vilhena, D. Boundaries and dynamics of biomes, 2013:abstr. (the Phanerozoic fossil record) p. 20 (Mapping changing biogeography across the Phanerozoic is a union of biogeography and paleontology that holds great promise for our understanding of the forces that determine macroecological patterns and forge biogeographic boundaries over long timescales) p. 38 (global analysis of 481,613 marine fossils spread throughout the Phanerozoic)
found: Phanerozoic faunal and floral realms of the Earth, 1996.
found: Phanerozoic diversity patterns : profiles in macroevolution, 1985.
found: Encyc. Britannica online, July 15, 2014(Phanerozoic Eon, the span of geologic time extending about 542 million years from the end of the Proterozoic Eon (which began about 2.5 billion years ago) to the present. The Phanerozoic, the eon of visible life, is divided into three major spans of time largely on the basis of characteristic assemblages of life-forms: the Paleozoic (542 million to 251 million years ago), Mesozoic (251 million to 65.5 million years ago), and Cenozoic (65.5 million years ago to the present) eras)
found: Palaeos website, July 15, 2014(The Phanerozoic Eon; the eon of multicellular life; The term Phanerozoic - "visible" or "revealed life", or "evident life" - is generally applied to the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras; the relatively short period during which the Earth has been inhabited by multicellular organisms that leave fossil traces in the rocks. This is in contrast to the "Precambrian", which lasted for a very much longer time, but was characterized only by micro-organisms that generally do not leave fossils. With the discovery of a complex late Precambrian (Vendian/Ediacaran) biotas the term Phanerozoic has lost much of its meaning, but can still be used perhaps to define the period of the development and evolution of higher groups of organisms like arthropods, molluscs, vertebrates etc that are still alive and predominant today)
found: Merriam-Webster online, July 15, 2014(Phanerozoic: of, relating to, or being an eon of geologic history that comprises the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic or the corresponding systems of rocks)
found: Oxford dictionaries website, July 15, 2014(Phanerozoic. 1. Of, relating to, or denoting the eon covering the whole of time since the beginning of the Cambrian period, and comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. 1.1. (as noun the Phanerozoic) The Phanerozic eon or the system of rocks deposited during it. The Phanerozoic began about 570 million years ago and covers the period in which rocks contain evidence of abundant life in the form of macroscopic mineralized fossils)
found: Wikipedia, July 15, 2014(The Phanerozoic (British English Phanærozoic) is the current geologic eon in the geologic timescale, and the one during which abundant animal life has existed. It covers roughly 542 million years (541.0 ± 1.0) and goes back to the time when diverse hard-shelled animals first appeared. Its name derives from the Ancient Greek words φανερός (fanerós) and ζωή (zo̲í̲), meaning visible life, since it was once believed that life began in the Cambrian, the first period of this eon. The time before the Phanerozoic, called the Precambrian supereon, is now divided into the Hadean, Archaean and Proterozoic eons; Phanerozoic Eon, 541 - 0 million years ago)
