paleocene in English

adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting the earliest epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Cretaceous period and the Eocene epoch.

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1. Key words: Architectonicid gastropods, Late Paleocene, Baja California, Mexico

2. Five families have both Maastrichtian and Paleocene fossil representatives.

3. Key words: Architectonicid gastropods, Late Paleocene, Baja California, Mexico

4. Definitive Creodonts are members of the family Oxyaenidae from the late Paleocene of North America

5. The Archerfish is a build that has been around since the Paleocene expansion

6. Another well-preserved fossil chelydrid is the Late Paleocene Protochelydra zangerli from North Dakota.

7. Creodont (plural Creodonts) A member of the extinct Creodonta order of mammals that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch

8. Non-avian dinosaurs may have survived to some extent into the early Danian stage of the Paleocene Epoch circa 64.5 Mya.

9. The east depression of Liaohe Basin is a Cenozonic intra continental rifting basin formed on the late Cretaceous Paleocene regional uplift.

10. Oxyaenid Creodonts are a family of extinct carnivorous mammals that first appeared in the middle Tiffanian (late Paleocene) of North America (Gingerich 1980; Secord 2008)

11. Members of the mammalian order Carnivora are the descendants of a successful late Paleocene radiation of mammals whose primitive food habits were carnivorous

12. During the Paleocene there was a great deal of coevolution of plants and animals , the plants evolving adaptations to animal pollination and fruit and seed dispersal.

13. The Paleocene/Eocene boundary interval is also marked by enhanced aggradation and degradation inParacosta species, possibly resulting from lowered oxygen and/or enhanced food levels.

14. Newly collected material from Mississippi’s Matthews Landing Marl Member of the Porters Creek Formation (Late Paleocene: Selandian) with well preserved anastrophic protoconchs provides evidence that this species belongs to the Heterostropha/Heterobranchia.

15. The paleontogical history of the cat can be traced back to the great diversification of mammals in the Paleocene epoch, at the beginning of the Cenozoic era, over 60 million years ago.

16. A systematic revision of the Cainozoic Trigoniidae (Mollusca:Bivalvia) reveals that the family is represented by two genera: Eotrigonia (Paleocene-Late Miocene), known only from southern Australia with species E

17. Microscopic fossilized shells are helping geologists reconstruct Earth's climate during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of Abrupt global warming and ocean acidification that

18. Based on the analysis of core of Subei basin during late Cretaceous and Paleocene Epoch, the authors conclude that Subei Basin was linked with the sea and the deposit was affected by transgression.

19. Creodonts are an extinct order of carnivorous mammals that were the first to evolve at the beginning of the Paleocene as soon as the dinosaurs died out 64 million years ago

20. The stratigraphic, geographic and bathymetric distribution of some Paleocene Benthonic foraminiferal assemblages have been studied in the Tethyan and circum-Atlantic regions within the framework of planktonic foraminiferal zones

21. Six gastropod species including two new ones, belonging to the family Architectonicidae, of the genera Architectonica, Granosolarium and Pseudomalaxis, are described for the Late Paleocene Sepultura Formation in Baja California, northwestern Mexico.

22. Around 50 to 60 million years ago, during the Paleocene Epoch, Antrim was subject to intense volcanic activity, when highly fluid molten basalt intruded through chalk beds to form an extensive lava plateau.

23. The first Creodonts emerged in the early Paleocene, only one of the “new” orders filling the immense hole in the biosphere left by the terrible K/T extinction that killed off the dinosaurs and much other life only a few million years earlier

24. Mesonychians were long considered to be Creodonts, but have now been removed from that order and placed in three families (Mesonychidae, Hapalodectidae, and Triisodontidae), either within their own order, Mesonychia, or within the order Condylarthra as part of the cohort or superorder Laurasiatheria.Nearly all mesonychids are, on average, larger than most of the Paleocene and Eocene Creodonts