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Jurassic

adjective

Of or relating to or denoting the second period of the Mesozoic era.

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... their life-history, if we may trust the indications of affinity furnished by their structure. In the Mesozoic period, however, insects with complete transformations must have been fairly abundant. Rocks of Triassic age have yielded beetles and lacewing-flies, while from among Jurassic fossils specimens have been described as representing most of our existing orders, including Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera. In Cainozoic rocks fossil insects of nearly six thousand species have been found, which are easily referable to existing families and often to existing ...

— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter

... lapse of time has occurred within the most recent period of the history of the earth. The remains of reefs formed by coral polypes of different kinds from those which exist now, enter largely into the composition of the limestones of the Jurassic period; and still more widely different coral polypes have contributed their quota to the vast thickness of the carboniferous and Devonian strata. Then as regards the latter group of rocks in America, the high authority ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

Words linked to "Jurassic" : period, pre-Jurassic, geological period, Mesozoic era, Age of Reptiles, Mesozoic, Jurassic period