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Phanerozoic
"Relating to or denoting the aeon covering the whole of time since the beginning of the Cambrian period, and comprising the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras", Late 19th century: from Greek
phaneros
'visible, evident' +
zōion
'animal' + -ic.