a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
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semantic pointers
hypernym
instance hyponym
Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch
Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch, Glacial epoch
Pliocene, Pliocene epoch
Miocene, Miocene epoch
Oligocene, Oligocene epoch
Eocene, Eocene epoch
Paleocene, Paleocene epoch
part holonym