Mesozoic - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mesozoicDinosauria
An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles mostly of large size whence the name Notwithstanding their size they present birdlike characters in the skeleton esp in the pelvis and hind limbs Some walked on their three toed hind feet thus producing the large ldquobird tracksrdquo so called of mesozoic sandstones others were five toed and quadrupedal See Illust of Compsognathus also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix...
Brontozoum
An extinct animal of large size known from its three toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone...
Ceratodus
A genus of ganoid fishes of the order Dipnoi first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda See Dipnoi and Archipterygium...
Cordaitales
an order of extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads known from the Pennsylvanian probably extinct since the Mesozoic...
Cycadales
an order of primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms...
Encrinus
A genus of fossil encrinoidea from the Mesozoic rocks...
VerbarHatteria
A New Zealand lizard which in anatomical character differs widely from all other existing lizards It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known called also Sphenodon tuatara and Tuatera...
Jurassic
Of the age of the middle Mesozoic about 190 to 140 million years ago including as divided in England and Europe the Lias Ooumllite and Wealden named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains It was noted for the predominance of dinosaurs on land and the development of the first birds and mammals...
Jura trias
A term applied to many American Mesozoic strata in which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended...
Mesozoic
Belonging or relating to the secondary or reptilian age or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic See Chart of Geology...
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