Paleocene
pronunciation
How to pronounce Paleocene in British English:
UK [ˈpeiliəusi:n]
How to pronounce Paleocene in American English:
US [ˈpeliəˌsin]
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- Noun:
- from 63 million to 58 million years ago; appearance of birds and earliest mammals
Word Origin
- Paleocene (adj.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Small order of primitive ungulates of the paleocene and eocene .
- 2. The paleocene to eocene inside the basin are fluvial sediments ;
- 3. Beautiful scenic spots , colors , patterns , risk prone , right and wrong , you-ming , such as the paleocene many changes in the natural rather large garden charm .
- 4. Since tha latest of cretaceous , the xiihu sag had been undergoing rifting stage during the paleocene and the eocene , inversion stagc during the oligocene and the miocene , and regional subsidence stage during the pliocene and the quaternary .
- 5. In the area that is now india , massive lava beds called the deccan traps were erupted in the very late cretaceous and early paleocene .