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noun - from 230 million to 63 million years ago
adj - of or relating to or denoting the Mesozoic era
The Mesozoic Era.
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Dinosaurs died out in this geological era that means "middle life" |
Meaning "middle life", this geologic era saw the emergence of early mammals |
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relating to or denoting the era between the Palaeozoic and Cenozoic eras, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. |
from 230 million to 63 million years ago |
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The Mesozoic Era ( or ) is an interval of geological time from about 252 to 66 million years ago. It is also called the Age of Reptiles a phrase introduced by the 19th century paleontologist Gideon Mantell who viewed it as dominated by diapsids such as Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, Plesiosaurus and Pterodactylus. To paleobotanists, this Era is also called the Age of Conifers.Mesozoic means "middle life", deriving from the Greek prefix meso-/- for "between" and zon/ meaning "animal" or "living being". The name "Mesozoic" was proposed in 1840 by the British geologist John Phillips (18001874). It is one of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, preceded by the Paleozoic ("ancient life") and succeeded by the Cenozoic ("new life"). The era is subdivided into three major periods: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, which are further subdivided into a number of epochs and stages. * The era began in the wake of the PermianTriassic extinction event, the largest well-documented mass extinctio |