palaeocene in a sentence

Examples

1. In the outer parts of the V�ring margin rifting restarted in the late Cretaceous, continuing through to the early Palaeocene.
2. Above the chalk the basin contains Palaeogene sediments ranging from Thanetian ( Palaeocene ) age to Rupelian ( Oligocene ) age.
3. The Macquarie Harbour graben deposits dating from Palaeocene and Eocene are poorly consolidated sand, and gravel, with some beds of lignite and clay.
4. With the advent of the Cenozoic, dryolestoids declined drastically in diversity, with only " Peligrotherium " being known from the Palaeocene.
5. Important Palaeocene finds in the Blackheath Beds on the site include 22 species of mammals in 12 orders, which resemble the Wasatchian fauna of North America.
6. It is likely that the London and Hampshire basins were initially part of a single larger area of deposition covering the whole of southeast England during the Palaeocene.
7. It has also yielded one of only two Palaeocene birds found in Britain, the holotype of " Marinavis longirostris ", a large Pelecaniform evolution.
8. The River Thames can first be identified as a discrete drainage line as early as 58 million years ago, in the Thanetian stage of the late Palaeocene epoch.
9. For copper-molybdenum porphyry deposits, formation is broadly concentrated in three time periods : Palaeocene-Eocene, Eocene-Oligocene, and middle Miocene-Pliocene.
10. Geological records indicate that although the first true mammals appeared in the Triassic period, modern mammalian orders appeared in the Palaeocene and Eocene epochs of the Palaeogene period.