How to Use "Eocene" with Example Sentences
- 1. And third , there is geological evidence for plant extinctions in the eocene .
- 2. Whichever way you look at the eocene enigma , it is bad news for life on earth .
- 3. At 95 % complete , the fossil provides the most complete understanding of the paleobiology of any eocene primate so far discovered .
- 4. The specimen was excavated by private collectors in 1983 from the messel shale pit , a shale quarry near darmstadt , germany , that has yielded many fossils of eocene life , including other primitive primates .
- 5. Fossil plants from the eocene and oligocene epochs indicate that what 's now the qinghai-tibet plateau enjoyed a tropical-subtropical rainforest environment with growing areas of temperate flora in some mountainous areas .