Cainozoic
Americanadjective
adjective
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In the Secondary or Cainozoic formations the preponderance of the higher grade of bivalves becomes more and more marked, till in the tertiary strata it approaches that observed in the living creation.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The great world summer of the middle Cainozoic period drew at last to an end.
From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Unlike most Irish counties, Antrim owes its principal features to rocks of Mesozoic and Cainozoic age.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Mesozoic, term explained. — and Cainozoic periods, gap between the. — and Palaeozoic rocks, limits of the.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
We have a fairly complete series of forms from a small tapir-like ancestor in the early Cainozoic.
From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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