PALAEOCENE


Meaning of PALAEOCENE in English

adj. & n. (US Paleocene) Geol.

adj. of or relating to the earliest epoch of the Tertiary period with evidence of the emergence and development of mammals.

n. this epoch or system. °Cf. Appendix II.

[ PALAEO- + Gk kainos new ]

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