The Paleocene is the earliest Palaeogene epoch, approximately to million years ago.[ref] It follows the Cretaceous and precedes the Eocene. Correlating the same interval between separated sedimentary rocks requires independent stratigraphic evidence; thickness alone is insufficient because deposition rates, erosion and missing intervals differ between sites.

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