And third , there is geological evidence for plant extinctions in the eocene .
第三，我们已经收集到有关始新世时代植物灭绝的地质证据。
Whichever way you look at the eocene enigma , it is bad news for life on earth .
无论用何种途径来观察始新世温室的这个谜，都对地球上生命带来不好的消息。
At 95 % complete , the fossil provides the most complete understanding of the paleobiology of any eocene primate so far discovered .
这具化石完整程度达95%，是迄今为止人类发现的、有助于了解始新世灵长类古生物学的最完整化石。
The specimen was excavated by private collectors in 1983 from the messel shale pit , a shale quarry near darmstadt , germany , that has yielded many fossils of eocene life , including other primitive primates .
Fossil plants from the eocene and oligocene epochs indicate that what 's now the qinghai-tibet plateau enjoyed a tropical-subtropical rainforest environment with growing areas of temperate flora in some mountainous areas .
