/ reply You need to login before you can answer. It is not uncommon that some species have repeated names such as Lutra Lutra, Bombus Bombus, Turdus Turdus, Lupus Lupus etc. When it is necessary to use a Latin name, follow the standard practice.t is not uncommon that some species have repeated names such as Lutra Lutra, Bombus Bombus, Turdus Turdus, Lupus Lupus etc. When it is necessary to use a Latin name, follow the standard practice.
A sample of gneiss from the site of the Earth's oldest dated rocks (the Acasta River area of Canada). This sample has been dated at 4.03 billion years old.
1 The oldest rocks on Earth, found in western Greenland, have been dated by four independent radiometric dating methods at 3.7-3.8 billion years. 2  Rocks 3.4-3.6 billion years in age have been found in southern Africa, western Australia, and the Great Lakes region of North America.dapted from The Age of the Earth, by the Branch of Isotope Geology, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California.