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Approximately the last 63 million years
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cenozoic
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context geology English) Of or pertaining to the Cenozoic (l en era). n. (context geology English) A geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon comprising the Paleogene and Neogene (l en periods) from about 65 million years ago to the present, when the ...
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The Cenozoic Era (; also Cænozoic , Caenozoic or Cainozoic ; meaning "new life", from Greek kainos "new", and zoe "life") is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras , following the Mesozoic Era and covering the period from 66 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cenozoic \Ce`no*zo"ic\, a. [Gr. ? recent + ? life.] (Geol.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also c[ae]nozoic , cainozoic , kainozoic .] See ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1841, Cainozoic , from Latinized form of Greek kainos "new, fresh, recent, novel" (see recent ) + zoon "animal" (see zoo ). The era that began with the demise of the dinosaurs and the rise of "recent" species.
Usage examples of cenozoic.
That was also the year that John Philips identified the great sequence of geological formations, the Palaeozoic, the age of fishes and invertebrates, the Mesozoic, the age of reptiles, and the Cenozoic, the age of mammals.
Sometimes too you will see the term Phanerozoic used to describe the span encompassing the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic eras.
Then the pterodactyl burst upon the world in all his impressive solemnity and grandeur, and all Nature recognized that the Cenozoic threshold was crossed and a new Period open for business, a new stage begun in the preparation of the globe for man.
AID had planned this fiasco, from the first slowboats to the retrobreeding program that produced not just the Neanderthals, but a ready-made Cenozoic ecology as well.
This not only contradicts the modern theory of human evolution, but it also casts grave doubt on our whole picture of the evolution of mammalian life in the Cenozoic era.
Weidenreich, director of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory at Beijing Union Medical College, also stated that there was no justification for attributing the femur and the skullcap to the same individual.
Rockefeller Foundation for the Cenozoic Research Laboratory secure, Black resumed his travels for the purpose of promoting Beijing man.
Pei then rode 25 miles on a bicycle to the Cenozoic Research Laboratory, where he presented the skull to Black.
He characteristically has not spared himself in serving the interests of the Survey and the Cenozoic Laboratory and after his popularizing Sinanthropus for us in America I should have a relatively easy task before me a year from now when I will have to ask for more money from the powers that be.
Franz Weidenreich assumed leadership of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory and wrote a comprehensive series of reports on the Beijing man fossils.
Professor Vaughan, is the end of the Cenozoic, and the beginning of the next era.
I have extensive experience in paleontology, especially in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras, in particular the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and the recent epochs of the Pliocene and Pleistocene.
With the financial backing of the Rockefeller Foundation for the Cenozoic Research Laboratory secure, Black resumed his travels for the purpose of promoting Beijing man.
There was a pelt on the floor, the skin of a smilodon from the Cenozoic hunting reserve on Aphrodite Terra.
It's only half completed I'm afraid - we haven't even finished burying the artificial dinosaur skeletons in the crust yet, then we have the Tertiary and Quarternary Periods of the Cenozoic Era to lay down, and.