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Permian

[ US /ˈpɝmiən/ ]
NOUN
  1. from 280 million to 230 million years ago; reptiles

How To Use Permian In A Sentence

  • There is a gap of several tens of millions of years between the Middle Permian when the last Metoptomatids lived, and the Middle Triassic when the true limpets appear.
  • It's Comer , folks, into the end zone for another Permian touchdown!
  • The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, United States
  • It is now widely recognized that the events at the Permian-Triassic boundary gave rise to major terrestrial ecosystem collapse.
  • Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.
  • In the dry late Permian environment many types of synapsids and reptiles flourished.
  • In eastern Mongolia late Permian marine sediments with brachiopods, crinoids and Bryozoa and Triassic marine sediments with ammonites occur in the suture zone, indicating that marine conditions existed during these times.
  • The great lycopod and cordaite trees of the Carboniferous and Permian were long gone, although smaller lycopods survived.
  • Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.
  • The only known igneous rocks in the area are Permian periodotite and lamprophyre dikes as well as diatremes of ultramafic composition associated with the Fluorite district.
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