Well attestedNamed from the place
Devonian
noun · first attested 1839
The period was named in the middle of a long and public argument between geologists.
The geologic period from about 419 to 359 million years ago, when fish diversified and forests first spread.
50.7000°N -3.8000°W · Q23156
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1839
- Part of speech
- noun
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Devon
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Devonian
Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison named the system in 1839 after the rocks of Devon in southwest England. Their claim that those beds sat between the Silurian and the Carboniferous was fought over for years in what geologists still call the Great Devonian Controversy. The same word can simply mean a person from Devon.
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