Paleocene$57318$ - traducción al Inglés
SECOND AGE OF THE PALEOCENE EPOCH
Middle Paleocene; Selandian age
![The [[GSSP]] marking the lower boundary of the Selandian at Itzurun, Spain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GSSP Golden spike Itzurun, Zumaia, Basque Country (02).jpg?width=200 "The [[GSSP]] marking the lower boundary of the Selandian at Itzurun, Spain")
Paleocene
adj. paleocene (era geologica)
Definición
Palaeocene
['pal??(?)si:n, 'pe?-]
(US Paleocene)
¦ adjective Geology relating to or denoting the earliest epoch of the Tertiary period (between the Cretaceous period and the Eocene epoch, about 65 to 56.5 million years ago), a time of rapid development of mammals.
Origin
C19: from palaeo- + Gk kainos 'new'.
Wikipedia
Selandian
The Selandian is a stage in the Paleocene. It spans the time between 61.6 and 59.2 Ma. It is preceded by the Danian and followed by the Thanetian. Sometimes the Paleocene is subdivided in subepochs, in which the Selandian forms the "middle Paleocene".
