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Millions of years ago. and similarly, Gya for Giga years ago (~ Billion).

This usage avoids the confusion between various folks definitions of billion etc. And uses the prefix/suffix definitions produced by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. (look for BIPM in Wikipedia.org )

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