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EOCENE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Eocene mean?
• EOCENE (noun)
The noun EOCENE has 1 sense:
1. from 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals
Familiarity information: EOCENE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
From 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Eocene; Eocene epoch
Instance hypernyms:
epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)
Holonyms ("Eocene" is a part of...):
Tertiary; Tertiary period (from 63 million to 2 million years ago)
Context examples
Researchers at Penn State and other institutions discovered a drastic drop in organic material preserved in sections of core samples from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, a global warming event 55.5 million years ago that's considered the best analog for modern climate change.
(Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change, National Science Foundation)
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