proper noun
Paleocene
Coined by French geologist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874, originally intended as being paléo- + Éocène, as he imagined this term to cover the earliest Eocene.
Paleocene
Coined by French geologist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874, originally intended as being paléo- + Éocène, as he imagined this term to cover the earliest Eocene.