Crossword-Solution: PALEOCENE
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| Of a Tertiary epoch | 2 answers |
| belonging to geological time period | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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greedy person
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Sentences with PALEOCENE (5)
The oldest Eocene (Paleocene) has yielded a mammalian fauna which is still of prevailingly Mesozoic character, and contains but few forms which can be regarded as ancestral to those of later times.
The succeeding fauna of the lower Eocene proper (Wasatch stage) is radically different and, while a few forms continue over from the Paleocene, the majority are evidently recent immigrants from some region not yet identified.
Perhaps, this high ratio reflects the imperfectly carnivorous habits of the Paleocene creodonts as a group.
Sediments underlying northwestern South Dakota include rocks assignable to the Pierre (shale), Fox Hills (sand), and Hell Creek formations of Cretaceous age and the Ludlow and Tongue River formations of the Paleocene.
The Oligocene division has been generally accepted as a distinct period, but "Paleocene" is not so widely used.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).