eocene
IPA: ˈiʌsin
Root Word: Eocene
noun
- (geology) the Eocene epoch
adjective
- (geology) of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 56 to 34 million years ago.
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Examples of "eocene" in Sentences
- Details life in the early Eocene.
- It falls within the Eocene epoch.
- A bone bed from the Eocene of Jamaica.
- The Eocene provides the transitional forms.
- The dolmen was built on sands from the Upper Eocene.
- Their undisputed fossil record starts in the Eocene.
- It is composed of lower cretaceous and eocene limestone.
- From Late Paleocene to early Eocene there was an unconformity.
- The adapiformes existed from the Eocene epoch to the Miocene epoch.
- At the end of the Eocene the climate seems to have become unsuitable.
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