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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to "geological period between the Triassic and the Cretaceous," 1847, from French Jurassique , literally "of the Jura Mountains," between France and Switzerland, whose limestones were laid down during this geological period. Used in English ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jurassic \Ju*ras"sic\, a. (Geol.) Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, about 190 to 140 million years ago, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, O["o]lite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains. It was noted for the ...
Usage examples of jurassic.
The 30-foot carnivore named Afrovenator abattensis was related to the fierce predator Allosaurus that had lived 30 million years before in the Jurassic of North America.
Oviraptor, a therapod relative of the Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus rex and the Jurassic predator Allosaurus, but about the size of a small ostrich.
A herd of those Jurassic Park brachiosaurs could have waded by, completely at home.
Fish, sharks, coelacanths, a few squirrel-sized mammals, and lungfish were also common in freshwater terrestrial habitats, especially in the Late Jurassic when the effects of aridity were ameliorated.
Triassic and Early Jurassic herrerasaurs and ceratosaurs were replaced by carnosaurian allosaurids and different small coelurosaurian theropods.
By the end of the Jurassic, sauropods, the grandest of all the dinosaur groups, were, in terms of abundance, the most significant vertebrates within these terrestrial ecosystems.
Empty platforms rushed past, their names in title: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic.
Purga was born, an ornitholestes stalked through the dense Jurassic forest, hunting diplodocus.
Early and Middle Jurassic dinosaurs were widespread, but their remains generally occur as isolated skeletons rather than in concentrations in deposits where analysis of habitat and rock deposition can be combined for paleoecologic interpretations.
I know that there are others where the reptilia of the Triassic and Jurassic Ages of the outer crust reign in undisputed possession because no other creature dare enter their domain.
There were two or three other varieties of Trachodon that I could see, and a few smaller dinosaurs, with a massive bulk in what passed for the distance that might have been a brontosaurus hangover from the Jurassic of a few million years before.
Traversodonts continued to survive nearly to the end of the Triassic, with the tritylodonts persisting into the Middle Jurassic as the last surviving therapsids.
Jurassic, angiosperms had spread very slowly, but after the extinctions at the end of that period, there was time for flowering plants to get going before the next batch of hungry herbivores took over.
When a truck passes, it cleaves the wind with a cry that seems strangely Jurassic.
Malformed specimens of Crinoids are known from the Triassic and Jurassic deposits.