middle Eocene Epoch

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Eocene Epoch

  • Coryphodon, a genus of primitive hoofed mammals known from Late Paleocene and Early Eocene deposits. Restoration painting by Charles R. Knight, 1898.
    In Eocene Epoch

    8 million years ago), Middle (47.8 million to 38 million years ago), and Late (38 million to 33.9 million years ago) epochs. The name Eocene is derived from the Greek eos, for “dawn,” referring to the appearance and diversification of many modern groups of organisms, especially mammals and mollusks.

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