[
US
/ˌsinəˈzoʊɪk/
]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or denoting the Cenozoic era
NOUN
- approximately the last 63 million years
How To Use Cenozoic In A Sentence
- These animals, the equivalent of the sabre-toothed cat of the Cenozoic era, used their enormous canines to bring down the ox - sized pareiasaurs.
- The search for the rootstock of the decapod Crustacea has resulted in the discovery of numerous Paleozoic organisms that bear some similarity to Mesozoic and Cenozoic shrimp, lobsters, and crabs.
- Fossils of the group are mostly Cenozoic, though some Permian and Carboniferous fossils are also known.
- Diversification of coralline algae during the Cretaceous and Cenozoic is well documented.
- The main fracture of the western margin fault zone of the South China Sea is originated from the Mesozoic basement fault, continuously developed into dextral strike-slip fault zone in Cenozoic.
- All four larger Recent families of Stromboidea are represented in Cenozoic strata from Chile.
- So the deep basement faults corresponding to the geophysical abnormal belt were not obviously active at least since Cenozoic and Neozoic Era.
- The triphibian chipping-rock sedimentary formation in Early Cenozoic in Adatan basin in western segment of east Kunlun Mt. was formerly considered to belong to "Low Tertiary".
- The dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era in a sense presaged the birds and mammals of the Cenozoic era.
- Land amniotes continued to diversify, and by the middle Pennsylvanian had split into several taxa, two of which would go on to dominate the Mesozoic and Cenozoic: the diapsids and the synapsids.