See also:

• CAINOZOIC (from the Gr. icalvbs, recent, life)

CAINOZOIC (from the Gr. icalvbs, See also:

• RECENT

recent, See also:

• LIFE

life)  , also written Cenozoic (See also:

• AMERICAN

American), Kainozoisch, Citnozoisch (See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German), Cenozoaire (See also:

• RENEVIER, EUGENE (1831– )

Renevier), in See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology, the name given to the youngest of the three See also:

• GREAT

great eras of See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

geological See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, the other two being the Mesozoic and Palaeozoic eras . Some authors have employed the See also:

• TERM

term " Neozoic " (Neozoisch) with the same significance, others have restricted its application to the See also:

• TERTIARY

Tertiary See also:

• EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)

epoch (Neozoique, De See also:

• LAPPARENT, ALBERT AUGUSTE COCHON DE (1839–19o8)

Lapparent) . The " Neogene " of Homes (1853) included the See also:

• MIOCENE

Miocene and See also:

• PLIOCENE (from the Gr. sr?eiov, mere, and xatvbs, recent)

Pliocene periods; Renevier subsequently modified its See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form to Neogenique . The remaining Tertiary periods were classed as Paleogaen by See also:

• NAUMANN, GEORG AMADEUS CARL FRIEDRICH (1797-1873)

Naumann in 1866 . The word " Neocene " has been used in See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of Neozoic, but its employment is open to objection . Some confusion has been introduced by the use of the term See also:

• CAINOZOIC (from the Gr. icalvbs, recent, life)

Cainozoic to include, on the one See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, the Tertiary See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period alone, and on the other hand, to make it include both the Tertiary and the See also:

• POST

post-Tertiary or See also:

• QUATERNARY

Quaternary epochs; and in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order that it may See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear a relationship to the concepts of time and faunal development similar to those indicated by the terms Mesozoic and Palaeozoic it is advisable to restrict its use to the latter alternative . Thus the Cainozoic era would embrace all the geological periods from See also:

• EOCENE (Gr. *In, dawn, icauvos, recent)

Eocene to See also:

• RECENT

Recent . (See TERTIARY and See also:

• PLEISTOCENE

PLEISTOCENE.) (J . A .