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Triassic   /trˌaɪˈæsˌɪk/   Listen
Triassic

noun
1.
From 230 million to 190 million years ago; dinosaurs, marine reptiles; volcanic activity.  Synonym: Triassic period.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to or denoting the first period of the Mesozoic era.



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"Triassic" Quotes from Famous Books



... as regards the Mammalia, the scanty remains of Triassic and Oolitic species afford no foundation for the supposition that the organisation of the oldest forms differed nearly so much from some of those which now live as these differ ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... Carboniferous period, with the immense deposits of coal from which it derives its name. Then comes the Permian period, named, again, from local circumstances, the first investigation of its deposits having taken place in the province of Permia, in Russia. Next in succession we have the Triassic period, so called from the trio of rocks, the red sandstone, Muschel Kalk, (shell-limestone.) and Keuper, (clay,) most frequently combined in its formations; the Jurassic, so amply illustrated in the chain of the Jura, where geologists first ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various


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