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paleocene
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to the geological epoch preceding the Eocene, 1877, from French paléocène (Schimpter, 1874), coined from paleo- + Greek kainos "new" (see recent ). It is, thus, the "old new" age.
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The Paleocene (; symbol Pε ) or Palaeocene , the "old recent", is a geologic epoch that lasted from about . It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era . As with many geologic periods , the strata that define the epoch's beginning ...
Usage examples of paleocene.
Geological formations, in which the hand- or machine-crafted artifacts were found, date from the Paleocene epoch - 50,000,000 years before man, as we know him, existed.
K-T boundary into the early Paleocene, where their betters could not, and so inherited the Earth?
On the basis of discoveries made by the author in the Barents Sea and Davis Strait, the article discusses the possibility that the radiation resulting from the explosion on impact might explain a series of mutations among marine-based parasites in the early Paleocene periods.
Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, the lower Paleocene was just plain boring.
Regan McKinney would love, something about the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Red Dog, and writing a book about anything concerned with Paleocene Eocene Thermal situations was over-the-edge academic.
Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.
That's one reason I know this is the Paleocene and not the Cretaceous period.