Etymograph

English

Itaboraian

Itaboraian comes from Portuguese Itaboraí.

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presentItaboraí
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012Itaboraian

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presentItaboraí
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012Itaboraian

Earliest quotation: 2012, John J. Flynn, Cenozoic Andean Faunas: “Carodnia is known only from the Itaboraian in both…”

Today it means

name A geologic age, 53.0–50.0 mya and within the Ypresian (Early Eocene), whose stratotype is the Itaboraí Formation; used especially in the context of South American land mammal age (SALMA) classification.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Portuguese Itaboraí / Itaboraian