Paléocène

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See also: Paleocene

French[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Paléocène m

  1. Paleocene