Caenozoic
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Then came the Caenozoic age, or age of mammals, three million years, with strata thirty-one hundred feet thick.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
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 Time and Change by John Burroughs
Man seems to be the net result of it all, of all these vast cycles of Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Caenozoic life.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
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