Paléocène

See also: Paleocene

French

Etymology

Coined by French geologist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874, originally intended as being paléo- +‎ Éocène, as he imagined this term to cover the earliest Eocene.

Proper noun

Paléocène m

  1. Paleocene
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