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John Phillips
John Phillips FRS (25 December 1800 – 24 April 1874) was an English geologist. During 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented.
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