How do you use Phanerozoic in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like eon or aeon, plus the exact meaning.
Phanerozoic in a sentence
Phanerozoic meaning
Of or relating to the Phanerozoic eon
Using Phanerozoic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to the Phanerozoic eon
- Useful related words include: phanerozoic eon, phanerozoic aeon, eon, aeon.
- In the example corpus, phanerozoic often appears in combinations such as: the phanerozoic, phanerozoic time, phanerozoic eon.
Context around Phanerozoic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Phanerozoic
- In this selection, "phanerozoic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, affecting, early, eon, eonothem and 540 stand out and add context to how "phanerozoic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include during the phanerozoic and during the phanerozoic the last. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "phanerozoic" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with phanerozoic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Phanerozoic ironstones generally have a different genesis. (7 words)
A new model for atmospheric oxygen over Phanerozoic time. (9 words)
This early Phanerozoic Eon extinction event eliminated many conodonts. (9 words)
The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion —a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared. (32 words)
Phanerozoic (540 Ma to present) and Precambrian ( 4.6 Ga to 540 Ma ) had primarily passive margins and detrital zircons (and orogenic granites ), whereas the tenure of Pangaea contained few. (30 words)
Huxley was wrong to pitch the loss of orders in the Phanerozoic as low as 7%, and he did not estimate the number of new orders which evolved. (28 words)
Example sentences (14)
A new model for atmospheric oxygen over Phanerozoic time.
As of 2008, the ICS is nearly finished a task begun in 1974, subdividing the Phanerozoic eonothem into internationally accepted stages using two types of benchmark.
However, even after accounting for sampling bias, there does appear to be a gradual decrease in extinction and origination rates during the Phanerozoic.
Huxley was wrong to pitch the loss of orders in the Phanerozoic as low as 7%, and he did not estimate the number of new orders which evolved.
Phanerozoic (540 Ma to present) and Precambrian ( 4.6 Ga to 540 Ma ) had primarily passive margins and detrital zircons (and orogenic granites ), whereas the tenure of Pangaea contained few.
Phanerozoic ironstones generally have a different genesis.
Plant life also appeared from early in the Phanerozoic eon.
Robinson, JM. 1990 Lignin, land plants, and fungi: Biological evolution affecting Phanerozoic oxygen balance.
See, e. g., citation The character of biodiversity growth in the Phanerozoic can be similarly accounted for by a feedback between the diversity and community structure complexity.
The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion —a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared.
The Phanerozoic supercontinent Pangaea began to break up 180 Ma and is still doing so today.
There are currently three eras defined in the Phanerozoic; the following table lists them from youngest to oldest (BP is an abbreviation for "before present").
This cold spell caused the second-greatest mass extinction of Phanerozoic time.
This early Phanerozoic Eon extinction event eliminated many conodonts.
Common combinations with phanerozoic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: