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Meaning of "paleocene"
paleocene (noun) - a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago, following the Cretaceous period. For example, 'The fossils discovered were estimated to be from the Paleocene epoch.'
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- Of or pertaining to the Paleocene epoch.
- A geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 65 to 56 million years ago; marked by the rise of the first large mammals in a tropical climate.
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Paleocene eocene thermal maximum.
Million years ago in the late Paleocene.
Then at beginning of the Paleocene there was a large transgression.
Modern snakes greatly diversified during the Paleocene.
The range is from Paleocene to recent.
Meiostylodon is an extinct genus of tillodont that lived during Paleocene.
It is dated to the Paleocene period.
Opsithrissops feeding habits were similar to other freshwater bony fish of the Paleocene.
The rodent fossil record dates back to the Paleocene on the supercontinent of Laurasia.
The deep estuary rocks are from the Paleocene.
Champsosaurs declined towards the end of the Paleocene and became extinct during the Miocene.
Rheidae is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared in the Paleocene.
New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification.
Fossils date back to the middle Paleocene epoch.
The Paleocene is the first epoch of the Cenozoic.
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Otodus was the top predator of the Paleocene oceans.
Deformed Paleocene and Eocene deposits record continuing orogenic activity.
Major chalk fissures also became infilled with Paleocene sediments.
They appeared in the Paleocene and died out in the Eocene.
The fossil record of the group extends back at least as far as the Paleocene.
Very little is still known on Paleocene avifaunas of Europe.
Galeocerdo is a genus of requiem sharks that have lived since the Paleocene epoch.
These both date from late Paleocene deposits of Morocco.
They were also most diverse in Asia where they occur in all major Paleocene faunas.
The vegetation of the period is known from Paleocene sedimentary deposits on Isle of Mull.
Our goal for this excavation was to locate mammalian teeth from the Paleocene strata.
Sediments from the Eocene and Paleocene were jumbled and deposited again chaotically.
His research has focused almost entirely on the Paleocene era in history.
The Early Paleocene sees the recovery of the Earth.
Adapisoriculidae is an extinct family of eutherian mammals present during the Paleocene and possibly Cretaceous.
New Paleocene orthopteroid taxa from the Paskapoo Formation are described.
A primitive relative of rodents from the Chinese Paleocene.
Its fossil range is from the upper Paleocene to the middle Eocene.
Zealand gives its name to the Selandian era of the Paleocene.
Two other species described previously from the Paleocene of Rivecourt were also recorded.
The Thanetian is sometimes referred to as the Late Paleocene.
It is known from the Paleocene of North America.
Hyaenodonts may have evolved in Africa in the Paleocene.
Discovery in the Paleocene and Eocene.
Hemicellulose concentration was extremely low in all Eocene and Paleocene samples.
It lived in the Paleocene of Morocco.
Ernanodon antelios is an extinct placental mammal from the late Paleocene of China.
This species is found from the Paleocene to the Oligocene of Europe.
Fossils have been found from Angola and date back to the Paleocene epoch.
The subduction starts in the Paleocene and ended in the Early Miocene.
Hainina is an extinct mammal genus from the latest Cretaceous to the Paleocene of Europe.
Mimetodon is a small mammal from the Paleocene of North America and perhaps Europe.
The strata are dated to the Upper Paleocene.
The Early Paleocene saw the recovery of the Earth from that event.
A primitive marine gavialoid from the Paleocene of Morocco.
