Cainozoic

Some confusion has been introduced by the use of the term Cainozoic to include, on the one hand, the Tertiary period alone, and on the other hand, to make it include both the Tertiary and the post-Tertiary or Quaternary epochs; and in order that it may bear a relationship to the concepts of time and faunal development similar to those indicated by the terms

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The Cainozoic sediments can be categorized into four groups: Oligo-Miocene alluvial and lacustrine deposits; Oligo-Miocene karst and fissure fills; Pliocene cave sediments; and Quaternary fluvial and cave sediments.

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia 2009

The Cainozoic deposits of Riversleigh occur as inliers within eroded areas of the extensive, flat-lying, Cambrian Thorntonia limestone.

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia 2009

The modern structure of the Altai region was formed mainly by the tectonic processes of the Cainozoic period with its vault lifting.

Golden Mountains of Altai, Russian Federation 2009

Riversleigh's faunal assemblages have profoundly altered understanding about Australia's mid-Cainozoic vertebrate diversity.

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia 2009

Queensland sections of the ecoregion are almost entirely found on the Cainozoic deposits of Karumba basin, which overlies the Jurassic-Cretaceous Carpentarian Basin.

Carpentaria tropical savanna 2008

The Eocene period basin (50-60 million years ago, Tertiary Epoch, Cainozoic Era) of the Messel formation had been hollowed out by faults in the earth's crust.

Messel Pit fossil site, Germany 2008

Changing climates have also influenced landscape development, highlighted most recently by late Cainozoic and Pleistocene glacial and periglacial events.

Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia 2008

Late Cainozoic paleoclimates of the southern Hemisphere south of the equator.

Some Geologists at Quelccaya « Climate Audit 2006

( "Island Life," p. 201.) (20) This word is also spelled Kainozoic, and Cainozoic.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen