Crossword-Solution: EOCENES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

You're groping in the prehistoric periods--Jurassic, Eocene, or some such." "Guess I ain't familiar wi' Jurassics an' Eocenes," Arizona replied gravely.

Nares's _Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea_) remarks as follows: "In the overlying American Eocenes occur types of plants occurring in the European Miocenes and still living, proving the truth of Professor Lesquereux's postulate, that the plant types appear in America a stage in advance of their advent in Europe.

The route by which [according to the Anti‐Atlantean and Lemurian hypotheses of Wallace] the floras of South America and Australia are supposed to have mingled, is beset by almost insurmountable obstacles, and the apparently sudden arrival of a number of subtropical American plants in our Eocenes necessitates a connection more to the South than the present 1,000 fathom line.