Paleocene

How To Use Paleocene In A Sentence

• Mid-Cretaceous faulting is observed along the Ran ridge, whereas the axis of the Paleocene rifted zone is shifted slightly further to the west in the Voring margin.
• In the Mesozoic, and into the Paleocene, limestone and dolomite interbedded with shale, clay and anhydrite prevailed in a more restricted, shallow marine to lagoonal environment.
• In the Mesozoic, and into the Paleocene, limestone and dolomite interbedded with shale, clay and anhydrite prevailed in a more restricted, shallow marine to lagoonal environment.
• Both polar and Tethyan dispersal routes have been well documented for Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans.
• Before and after the late Paleocene thermal maximum, upwelling and biological productivity were less intense, and seafloor dysoxia was restricted to neritic parts of the basin. Bürger and Cubasch: Are multiproxy climate reconstructions robust? « Climate Audit
• At present, the oldest reliable fossil from this family is a tarsometatarsus that was found in Colorado, dating back to the Paleocene epoch.
• The current study reports on new neoplagiaulacid multituberculates from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation of central Alberta, Canada, at localities along the Blindman River near the City of Red Deer.
• Paleocene faunas were dominated by what we refer to as archaic mammals: condylarths (archaic ungulates), archaic primates, small rodent-like multituberculates, pantodonts, and others.
• Terrestrial deposits contain fossils ranging from Paleocene leaf imprints to Cretaceous dinosaur remains.
• During the Paleocene, almost all of the decapod occurrences were in fine siliciclastic sediments.