paleogene in English

adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting the earlier division of the Tertiary period, comprising the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs.

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1. Coal and oil shale occur alternatively and cyclically in the Paleogene Huangxian faulted Basin.

2. For most of the Paleogene and Neogene, they were more widely distributed than they are today.

3. Палеогеновые архитектонициды (Gastropoda) юга СССР / Paleogene Architectonicids (Gastropoda) of southern USSR [In Russian] Paleontological Journal, 1978

4. Glyptosaurines are an extinct clade of Anguids whose remains are common in many Holarctic Paleogene and Cretaceous deposits

5. Most oil shale deposits were formed during Middle Cambrian, Early and Middle Ordovician, Late Devonian, Late Jurassic and Paleogene times.

6. The genus Andrewsarchus was a group of prehistoric artiodactyl mammals (even number of deer-like hooves), which lived during the Paleogene Period

7. The Western Ligurian Flysch Units represent an Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene accretionary prism overthrust onto the paleo-European continental margin during the collisional stages of the Alpine orogeny (Eocene).

8. Anhinga beckeri Emslie, 1998 (Early – Late Pleistocene of SE US) Protoplotus, a small Paleogene phalacrocoraciform from Sumatra, was in old times considered a primitive darter

9. Scientists have hypothesized that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinctions were caused by one or more catastrophic events such as massive asteroid impacts or increased volcanic activity.

10. Towards the south, Neogene planation has eroded the Paleogene pediplain, although major pediplanation and aggradation had everywhere ceased by the Upper Miocene when canyon formation commenced.

11. Pliocene to recent uplift and shortening of the Pliocene fluvial gravel (“Sundgauschotter”), which accumulated on a nearly plain surface, and the progressive deflection and capture of rivers resulted from reactivation of pre-existing Paleogene faults.

12. Anhinga hadarensis Brodkorb & Mourer-Chauviré, 1982 (Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene of E Africa) Anhinga beckeri Emslie, 1998 (Early – Late Pleistocene of SE US) Protoplotus, a small Paleogene phalacrocoraciform from Sumatra, was in old times considered a primitive darter.

13. -‭ ‬The holotype specimen of Menodus giganteus,‭ ‬and the‭ "‬insoluble‭" ‬problem of Chadronian Brontothere taxonomy.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Paleogene Mammals.‭ ‬Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History‭ ‬26.‭ ‬pp.‭ ‬129‭–‬136.‭ ‬-‭ ‬M.‭ ‬C.‭ ‬Mihlbachler,‭ ‬S.‭ ‬G.‭ ‬Lucas

14. On the submerged continental fragments of the Western Tethys, a distinctive assemblage of small-sized Agglutinated foraminifera has been described from Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene deep-water limestones in Italy, Spain (Kuhnt, 1990; Kuhnt & Kaminski, 1989, 1990), and from the Pieniny Klippen Belt in Poland (Bąk, 2000).

15. Andrewsarchus lived during the late Eocene epoch of the Paleogene period in Asia (fossils have been found in Mongolia), between about 45 million and 36 million years ago.Andrewsarchus was a mammal of the extinct order Mesonychia - the Mesonychids were a group of hoofed carnivores which were related to artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates) and cetaceans (the group containing whales, dolphins and