Eozoic
(formerly) noting or pertaining to the Precambrian Era, especially the period including the beginnings of animal life.
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The English chalk and the chalky modern mud of the Atlantic sea-bed, are precisely similar in origin to the Eozoic limestones.
The Story of the Earth and Man | J. W. DawsonIn it the forms of animal and plant life that had been becoming more numerous and varied from the Eozoic onward, culminated.
The Story of the Earth and Man | J. W. DawsonIn his system the greater divisions of the history were “Times:” thus the Eozoic was a time and the Palozoic was a time.
The Story of the Earth and Man | J. W. DawsonAnother problem is that of means of subsistence for the Eozoic Foraminifera.
The Story of the Earth and Man | J. W. DawsonIn the oldest rocks known to geologists—those of the Eozoic time—some indications of the presence of life are found.
Facts and fancies in modern science | John William Dawson
British Dictionary definitions for Eozoic
/ (ˌiːəʊˈzəʊɪk) /
archaic of or formed in the part of the Precambrian era, during which life first appeared
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