cenozoic

IPA: sinʌzˈoʊɪk

Root Word: Cenozoic

(geology) A geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon comprising the Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary periods from about 65 million years ago to the present, when the continents moved to their current position and modern plants and animals evolved.

Examples of "cenozoic" in Sentences

Cenolithic group, or cenozoic (tertiary) group of strata: Xa.
Cenolithic group, or cenozoic (tertiary) group of strata: XI.
Cenolithic group, or cenozoic (tertiary) group of strata: XII.
Cenolithic group, or cenozoic (tertiary) group of strata: Xb. Oligocene (old tertiary): 30.
Cenolithic group, or cenozoic (tertiary) group of strata: Xb. Oligocene (old tertiary): 29.
I would like to return to the question asked by C. W. Magee in #5: “if temperature only slightly increases rainfall, then why does paleoclimactic data indicate more widespread rainforests in pre-glacial cenozoic?”
You are absolutely correct that over the time period that life has existed on earth in complex, multicellular, differentiated-tissue forms (the paleozoic through the cenozoic) co2 concentrations have been much higher than they have been recently.
Still, there remains the general division into the palæozoic, the mesozoic, and the cenozoic strata; the first are characterized by their remains of carboniferous plants; the second by traces of amphibious and fish life; the third show remnants of mammals.