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始新世,第三纪下层始新世的,第三纪下层的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Eocene \E"o*cene\, a. [Gr. ? daybreak, dawn + ? new, recent.]
   (Geol.)
   Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions
   into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists,
   and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the
   present era; as, Eocene deposits. -- n. The Eocene formation.
   --Lyell.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Eocene
     n : from 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern
         mammals [syn: {Eocene epoch}]