Triassic vs Jurassic - What's the difference?
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Of or from the geologic strata above the Permian and below the Jurassic; of or belonging to the period 250 to 200 million years ago when these strata were laid down.
* 1990 , Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park , Alfred A. Knopf, p 45:
(geology) A geologic period within the Mesozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 250 to 200 million years ago.
(label) Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
* 1990 , Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park , Alfred A. Knopf, p 94:
Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe.
* 1910 , Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchism”, in Encyclopædia Britannica .
The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.
* D. M. Kermack, K. A. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters :
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(wikipedia Triassic)Adjective
(-)- “Well,” Ellie said. “We know animals have survived. Crocodiles are basically Triassic' animals living in the present. Sharks are ' Triassic . So we know it has happened before.”
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(en proper noun)See also
*jurassic
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(wikipedia Jurassic) (-)- His father squinted at the skeleton. “What is it, Jurassic'?” “Jeez. No. Cretaceous.” “Cretaceous? What's the difference between Cretaceous and '''Jurassic'''?” “Only about a hundred million years,” Tim said. “Cretaceous is older?” “No, Dad, ' Jurassic is older.”
- The Jurassic , the Spanish and the Italian federations and sections of the International Working Men's Association, as also the French, the German and the American anarchist groups, were for the next years the chief centres of anarchist thought and propaganda.
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(en proper noun)- [p 108] Like the Forest Marble Beds in the Middle Jurassic , the Purbeck Beds of the Upper Jurassic are deltaic or estuarine in origin, so as well as mammals they contain small, presumably freshwater, crocodiles and the first indisputable lizards.
- [p 109] This is less surprising if it is recalled that in the Upper Jurassic , Europe and North America were joined to form Laurasia and the Atlantic Ocean still had to be formed [...]