mesozoic's Usage Examples:

Between India and China there is a broad belt in which marine deposits of Mesozoic and Tertiary age are well developed.

It confirms the general belief on geological grounds that this was the seat of their development at the close of the Mesozoic era.

Osborn, "Mesozoic Mammalia," Journ.

The latter has indeed been regarded as the direct descendant of these Mesozoic forms; but as already stated, in the opinion of Mr B.

There were, therefore, two principal epochs of folding in the island, one at the close of the Palaeozoic era which affected the whole of the island, and one at the close of the Mesozoic which was felt only in the western region.

In the western region, on the other hand, all the Mesozoic beds are involved in a later system of folds; but here also the Tertiary beds lie nearly horizontal.

And when we know that the Chrysomelidae and Buprestidae also lived in Triassic, and the Carabidae, Elateridae, Cerambycidae and Scarabaeidae, in Liassic times, we cannot doubt that the great majority of our existing families had already been differentiated at the beginning of the Mesozoic epoch.

Not improbably this country was either "Gondwana-land," connecting Mesozoic India with Africa, or perhaps Africa itself.

South and west of the Fossa Magna the beds are thrown into folds which run approximately parallel to the general direction of the coast, and two zones may be recognizedan outer, consisting of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic beds, and an inner, consisting of Archaean and Palaeozoic rocks, with granitic intrusions.

In the western region all the Mesozoic systems, including the Trias, are well developed.

Synonyms:

Cretaceous period, Triassic period, Jurassic period, Cretaceous, Mesozoic era, Age of Reptiles, Triassic, Jurassic,