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noun - from 58 million to 40 million years ago
The Eocene Epoch.
The deposits of the Eocene Epoch.
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relating to or denoting the second epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Palaeocene and Oligocene epochs. |
from 58 million to 40 million years ago presence of modern mammals |
Relating to or denoting the second epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Palaeocene and Oligocene epochs. |
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The Eocene ( ) Epoch, lasting from 56 to 33.9 million years ago, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the Eocene is marked by a brief period in which the concentration of the carbon isotope 13C in the atmosphere was exceptionally low in comparison with the more common isotope 12C. The end is set at a major extinction event called the Grande Coupure (the "Great Break" in continuity) or the EoceneOligocene extinction event, which may be related to the impact of one or more large bolides in Siberia and in what is now Chesapeake Bay. As with other geologic periods, the strata that define the start and end of the epoch are well identified, though their exact dates are slightly uncertain. * The name Eocene comes from the Ancient Greek (s, "dawn") and (kainós, "new") and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('n |