How To Use Cenozoic In A Sentence
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These animals, the equivalent of the sabre-toothed cat of the Cenozoic era, used their enormous canines to bring down the ox - sized pareiasaurs.
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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.
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Fossils of the group are mostly Cenozoic, though some Permian and Carboniferous fossils are also known.
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Diversification of coralline algae during the Cretaceous and Cenozoic is well documented.
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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.
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All four larger Recent families of Stromboidea are represented in Cenozoic strata from Chile.
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So the deep basement faults corresponding to the geophysical abnormal belt were not obviously active at least since Cenozoic and Neozoic Era.
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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".
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The dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era in a sense presaged the birds and mammals of the Cenozoic era.
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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.
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Such giant cephalopods play or played a similar ecological role of top predator to that of Devonian arthrodire placoderms, Mesozoic pliosaurs and Cenozoic toothed whales.
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Beneath a thin veneer of Pleistocene sediments, it encountered a thick sequence of Cenozoic and Jurassic strata separated by major unconformities.
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The range was formed in the extensional environment associated with the Mesozoic and Cenozoic breakup of Gondwanaland.
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Several other interruptions within the Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Zagros region have long been attributed to epirogeny.
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Since the beginning of the Cenozoic, reefs have become dominated by scleractinian corals and calcareous algae.
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The adaptations of gastropods for drilling molluscan prey also increased during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
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The Axamilpa river drains this area and along its banks a sequence of Late Cenozoic sands, silts, and gravels are exposed.
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From the maps presented in Figure 2, it is apparent that the well tested the crest of an anticline that formed during the Cenozoic.
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The Kuangshanliang and Tianjingshan present a duplex which comprises of a shallow fault-bend fold of late Triassic and a deep blind stacking anticline imbricated by several thrust sheets of Cenozoic.
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The tilted rock strata are comprised of largely carbonate Palaeozoic deposits over 4,000 m thick, Mesozoic deposits at least 1,000 m thick with a variety of sedimentary rocks in a cataclastic sedimentation; and recent Cenozoic deposits of glacial moraines, alluvial gravels and carbonate sediments.
Huanglong National Scenic Area, China
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Gibling interpreted the assemblage of mudstone, coal and oil shale in the Cenozoic basins of Thailand as the product of deposition in environments where lake levels fluctuated.
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Gold deposition was the most productive during the course of the Hercynian and Kimmerian metallogenic epochs and the Mezo-Cenozoic activation stage.
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Popov's monograph of Cenozoic cardiid shell microstructure includes more than 62 genera and subgenera and 150 species.
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Gold deposition was the most productive during the course of the Hercynian and Kimmerian metallogenic epochs and the Mezo-Cenozoic activation stage.
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The strongly developed stratification of many of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks is clearly shown.
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Purely by way of example, the image at left shows the nomenclature used for notoungulates, an extinct group of ungulates endemic to the early Cenozoic of South America.
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The western Taiwan basin is of Cenozoic backarc coastal - shallow marine deposits.
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Cenozoic marine and nonmarine sedimentary rocks and alluvial deposits, and Mesozoic granitic and ultramafic rocks.
Central California Coast (Bailey)
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The thickness of Cenozoic alluvial fill that is overthrust at the South Karlik Tagh front is poorly constrained, and thus the amount of shortening on that bounding fault is a minimum estimate.
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The structural boundary and structural system of the Cenozoic basin are set up with the aid of experimental contrast and geological generalization method.
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The theriodonts included both carnivores and herbivores, and various lineages correlated to late Cenozoic wolves, weasels, otters, rodents, and shrews.
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The egg case secreted by the Cenozoic argonautids was shaped like Cretaceous ammonites, which their ancestors used to occupy and emend.
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Further detailed studies are required to distinguish Palaeozoic structures such as thrusts, normal faults and sutures that were reactivated in Mesozoic-Cenozoic time.
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This mountainous ecoregion is underlain by Cenozoic volcanics and has been affected by alpine glaciations.
Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)
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Historically, the Cenozoic has been divided up into the Quaternary and Tertiary sub-eras, as well as the Neogene and Paleogene periods.
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The late Mesozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphy of northern Chile is shown in Figure 3.
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Primates, insectivores, and condylarths are recognized by the beginning of the Cenozoic, and by the start of the Eocene, most modern groups had become established.
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Close to the tectonic contact with the Mesozoic-Cenozoic cover there is a wide zone of cataclasis.
