relating to or denoting the earliest epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Cretaceous period and the Eocene epoch

these footprints are found in an exposure of a rock formation that contains no Palaeocene fossils

the earliest epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Cretaceous period and the Eocene, or the system of rocks deposited during it

in the early Palaeocene, dense forests extended to higher latitudes