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Mesozoic   /mˌɛsəzˈoʊɪk/   Listen
Mesozoic

noun
1.
From 230 million to 63 million years ago.  Synonyms: Age of Reptiles, Mesozoic era.





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"Mesozoic" Quotes from Famous Books



... advance from the imperfect tooth-billed and reptile-tailed birds of the secondary epoch, to the wonderfully developed falcons, crows, and swallows of our time. So, the ferns, lycopods, conifers, and monocotyledons of the palaeozoic and mesozoic rocks, have developed into the marvellous wealth of forms of the higher dicotyledons ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... central and meridian zone of waters, whether lakes, rivers, or marshes, extending from Lake Tchad to Lake Ngami, with hippopotami on their banks, are, therefore, but the great modern, residual, geographical phenomena of those of a mesozoic age.' ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 - Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 • Various


Words linked to "Mesozoic" :   Jurassic, Cretaceous period, Triassic period, Triassic, Jurassic period, cretaceous, geological era, era


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