Tertiary Period epoch
The crossword clue "Tertiary Period epoch" is answered by EOCENE, a 6-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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EOCENE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EOCENE answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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- PLIOCENE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for EOCENE
Every other clue in this collection answered by EOCENE, most used first.
- Dawn-of-mammals epoch - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Epoch when mammals arose - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Geological epoch - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Geologic epoch - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Tertiary epoch - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
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