oligocene epoch

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Definition von oligocene epoch im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

7 to 23.8 million years ago. It follows the Eocene Epoch and precedes the Miocene Epoch. The term (from the Greek for "few recent forms") refers to the small number of modern animals that originated during this epoch. Oligocene climates appear to have been temperate, and many regions were nearly tropical. Grasslands expanded, and forested regions dwindled. The vertebrates of the northern continents had an essentially modern aspect that is a result less of the appearance of new forms than of the extinction of archaic vertebrates at the close of the Eocene

Major division of the Tertiary Period, from

{i} (Geology) epoch in the Tertiary period characterized by the presence of saber-toothed cats

Relevante Übersetzungen

The Oligocene epoch

Oligocene

Silbentrennung

Ol·i·go·cene ep·och

Türkische aussprache

älıgōsin ipık

Aussprache

/ˈäləgōˌsēn ˈēpək/ /ˈɑːləɡoʊˌsiːn ˈiːpək/