Paleocene
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The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 Ma. It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name comes from Ancient Greek παλα
Wilhelm Philipp Schimper coined the term "Paleocene".
K–Pg boundary recorded in a Wyoming rock (the white stripe in the middle)
The sea cliffs of Itzurun beach near the town of Zumaia, Spain, the GSSP for the Selandian and Thanetian
Paleocene coal is extracted at the Cerrejón mine, Colombia's largest open-pit mine
Eocene
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The Eocene is a geological epoch that began about 56 million years ago. It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The end point of the Eocene is the Eocene-Oligocene t
Paleocene
…off the Quaternary from the Tertiary in 1829; and Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (ignoring the Quaternary) had divided the Tertiary Epoch into the Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, and New Pliocene (Holocene) Periods in 1833. British geologist John Phillips had proposed the Cenozoic in 1840 in place of the…
Subdivisions of the Eocene
Eocene vegetation of the Clarno Nut Beds in John Day Fossil Beds National Monument was humid subtropical forest vegetation of high diversity dominated by angiosperms.
Nuphar seeds, Nymphaeaceae, Ypresian
Mastixia tree seed, Nyssaceae, London Clay