Meanings of cenozoic in английском

The Cenozoic era comprises two divisions,-theTERTIARY period and the QUATERNARY period.

These two ages are called the Mesozoic or Secondary, and the Cenozoic or Tertiary.

Representatives of the foraminifer Nummulites are important in Earth history for timing Cenozoic shallow-water carbonates.

The Cenozoic era had volcanic activity and geological unrest.

Anna stood in the archway of the Gothic old building, motionless, like her Cenozoic comrades.

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of nuclear genes suggests a Cenozoic over-water dispersal origin for the Cuban solenodon.

In geologic time, the beds are a part of the Oligocene epoch of the Cenozoic era.

In the early part of the fourth great geological Time-theCenozoic-nearlythe whole continent was above water.

There is a laboratory of invertebrate paleontology of Cenozoic and Mesozoic age, with a corps of paleontologists.

In western North America, on the other hand, the strata of the Mesozoic-andof the Cenozoic also-arewidely spread.

: 1, Proterozoic; 2, Paleozoic; 3, Mesozoic; 4, Cenozoic.

Sometimes too you will see the term Phanerozoic used to describe the span encompassing the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic eras.

The fourth section of the organic history of the earth, the Tertiary or Cenozoic age, was much shorter than the preceding.

In consequence giant carnivores would find no field for action in the Cenozoic world, and hence they have not been evolved.

(1995) of 342 ancestral-descendant pairs of Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera.

The Mesozoic era has three periods, the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous, while the Cenozoic era names five periods,-theEocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene.