TRIASSIC • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Triassic

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/trˌaɪˈæsˌɪk/ Listen

Triassic

noun

From 230 million to 190 million years ago; dinosaurs, marine reptiles; volcanic activity. Synonym: Triassic period.

adjective

Of or relating to or denoting the first period of the Mesozoic era.

See more definitions of Triassic...

See images of 'Triassic'

Etymology of 'Triassic'

Related search:

Triassic period

Share |

"Triassic" Quotes from Famous Books

... the thing was sufficient to assure me that I was facing one of those long-extinct, prehistoric creatures whose fossilized remains are found within the outer crust as far back as the Triassic formation, a gigantic labyrinthodon. And there I was, unarmed, and, with the exception of a loin cloth, as naked as I had come into the world. I could imagine how my first ancestor felt that distant, prehistoric morn that he encountered for the first time ...

— At the Earth's Core • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... opens in the middle of the great revolution described in the last chapter. Its first section, the Triassic period, is at first a mere continuation of the Permian. A few hundred species of animals and hardy plants are scattered over a relatively bleak and inhospitable globe. Then the land begins to sink once more. The seas spread in great arms over the revelled continents, the ...

— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

... after that all the varieties of terrestrial animals. Nothing could be further from the facts as we find them. As a matter of fact we know of not the slightest evidence of the existence of birds before the jurassic and perhaps the triassic formations. If there were any parallel between the Miltonic account and the circumstantial evidence, we ought to have abundant evidence in the devonian, the silurian, and carboniferous rocks. I need not tell you ...

— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott

... Pictet, from whose calculations of what percentage of the genera of animals, existing in any formation, lived during the preceding formation, it results that in no case is the proportion less than one-third, or 33 per cent. It is the triassic formation, or the commencement of the mesozoic epoch, which has received the smallest inheritance from preceding ages. The other formations not uncommonly exhibit 60, 80, or even 94 per cent, of genera in common with those whose remains are imbedded ...

— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley