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Mesozoic
[ mez-uh-zoh-ik, mes-, mee-zuh-, -suh- ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 230 and 65 million years ago, characterized by the appearance of flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs.
noun
- the Mesozoic Era or group of systems.
Mesozoic
/ ˌmɛsəʊˈzəʊɪk /
adjective
- of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 250 000 000 years ago with the Triassic period and lasted about 185 000 000 years until the end of the Cretaceous period
noun
- the Mesozoicthe Mesozoic era
Mesozoic
/ mĕz′ə-zō′ĭk /
- The era of geologic time from about 245 to 65 million years ago. The Mesozoic Era was characterized by a drastic change in plants and animals. In the early part of the Mesozoic, ferns, cycads, and ginkgos were dominant; later, gymnosperms and angiosperms developed. Dinosaurs also first appeared in the Mesozoic and, with the exception of birds, became extinct at the end of the era.
- See Chart at geologic time
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- post-Mes·o·zoic adjective
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The Mesozoic systems are classified according to the method generally adopted.
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Enaliosaurians ('sea-lizards'), a group of gigantic Mesozoic reptiles of which the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus were the chief.
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The case amounts almost to a demonstration if we compare with Dinosaurs their contemporaries, the Mesozoic birds.
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The evidence furnished by Palozoic and Mesozoic formations points chiefly to mild, genial, and sometimes tropical conditions.
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The next or closing period of this great Mesozoic time brought a wondrous change.
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