Caenozoic
Britishadjective
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According to Dr Boyce’s hypothesis, it is therefore no coincidence that the second-most abundant source of coal today is rocks of the Cretaceous and the subsequent Caenozoic.
From Economist
Then came the Caenozoic age, or age of mammals, three million years, with strata thirty-one hundred feet thick.
From Project Gutenberg
We must owe a debt to the monsters of Mesozoic and Caenozoic time; they helped to fertilize the soil for us, and to discipline the ruder forces of life.
From Project Gutenberg
Man seems to be the net result of it all, of all these vast cycles of Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Caenozoic life.
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