Synset

a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
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era

semantic pointers

hypernym

geological time, geologic time

instance hyponym

Cenozoic, Cenozoic era, Age of Mammals Mesozoic, Mesozoic era, Age of Reptiles Paleozoic, Paleozoic era

part holonym

part meronym

period, geological period