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Epoch after the Eocene
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oligocene
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The Oligocene (; symbol O) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, "pertaining to the Tertiary period between the Eocene and the Miocene," coined in German (1854) by Heinrich Ernst von Beyrich, from oligo- "small, little, few" + -cene . So called because few modern fossils were found in Oligocene rocks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oligocene \Ol"i*go*cene\, a. [Oligo- + Gr. ? new, recent.] (Geol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain strata which occupy an intermediate position between the Eocene and Miocene periods. -- n. The Oligocene period. See the Chart of Geology .
Usage examples of oligocene.
We have made detailed comparisons between the microchemical processes of such ancestral Oligocene ancestors recovered from the ship and known data relating to animals that exist today and are descended from those same ancestors.
The Silurian period follows the Ordovician, and the Miocene epoch follows the Oligocene as surely as Wednesday follows Tuesday.
Out on safari in the Early Oligocene after titanothere while I run the office.
This same enzyme is found in many different and nonrelated Oligocene species.
The Oligocene animals all contain the same genetic coding elements, but in their case there is a difference.
Finally, VIII and IX, the Oligocene and Miocene Epochs of the Tertiary Period, mark the emergence of man's earliest ancestors.