Mesozoic

How To Use Mesozoic In A Sentence

• The search for the rootstock of the decapod Crustacea has resulted in the discovery of numerous Paleozoic organisms that bear some similarity to Mesozoic and Cenozoic shrimp, lobsters, and crabs.
• Thus with the water drained from the land, the subsequent volcanic activity in the Mesozoic and Cainozoic would be sub-aerial.
• Land amniotes continued to diversify, and by the middle Pennsylvanian had split into several taxa, two of which would go on to dominate the Mesozoic and Cenozoic: the diapsids and the synapsids.
• In Hertfordshire and East Anglia, gravels that are in a similar setting to the Hanborough Terrace contain up to 50% Mesozoic detritus at some localities.
• The dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era in a sense presaged the birds and mammals of the Cenozoic era.
• In any case, Late Mesozoic climates were so mild and equable that even the earliest Jurassic birds were probably fully capable of relatively precise behavioral thermoregulation.
• One group, the multituberculates (‘many cusps'), were highly successful gnawing herbivores, and they outlasted the Mesozoic, surviving until the Oligocene.
• Some Mesozoic enantiomithine birds had similar size and morphology to modern passerines, and it is tempting to speculate that they too had evolved some form of bounding flight.
• Haramiyids were originally considered ancestral to the multituberculates, an important group of rodent-like mammals of the Mesozoic and early Tertiary.
• A complete postorbital bar is seen elsewhere in Mesozoic birds: confuciusornithids and the enantiornithine ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science