(a.) Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains.
(n.) The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fossil eggs attributable to dinosaur (probably prosauropod) parentage that have been recovered from the early Jurassic Elliot Formation sediments at the Rooidraai locality possess shells that are similar to those of birds and crocodilians, and distinctly unlike those of chelonians and gekkonids.
(2) Everybody wants to be part of something that has become a cultural phenomenon.” Jurassic World took $1.668bn earlier this year.
(3) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
(4) Amino acid analyses have been made of the insoluble protein, soluble peptide, and free amino acid fractions isolated from a series of fossil pecten shells of ages from the Pleistocene through the Jurassic.
(5) Rather than rushing the film into production following the box-office failure of previous instalment Jurassic Park III in 2001, Universal spent more than a decade working out the best way to mount a reboot, and was rewarded with $1.64bn in receipts.
(6) But at the end of the day, I’m just taking big swings.” Jurassic World is in cinemas from 12 June
(7) Cocos, the remote emerald tip of a towering underwater mountain range which was the setting for the fictional Isla Nublar in the novel Jurassic Park, has served as a pirate hideaway, whaling station, penal colony and a pit stop for Colombian drug runners.
(8) Jurassic world had terrible characterisation and excessive use of CGI.
(9) Triassic-Jurassic, c 200 million years ago Three-quarters of species were lost, again most likely due to another huge outburst of volcanism.
(10) The Avengers, $392.5m Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Guardian Film Show discusses Jurassic World.
(11) Jurassic Park, for example, was never going to be a charming story about a young boy who successfully befriends a ravenous if depressed Tyrannosaurus rex.
(12) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
(13) The $70.9 million it made at the US box office didn't give it the clout of Jurassic Park, Mrs Doubtfire or Indecent Proposal among the year's top moneyspinners.
(14) Add to that the fact that the entire East Devon coastline from Exmouth to the border with Dorset is part of the designated world heritage site, the Jurassic Coast.
(15) The genus Ginkgo is a north temperate gymnosperm taxon represented by fossilized leaves and wood from the early Jurassic through the Pliocene, and by the living species G. biloba native to eastern China.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The film team review Jurassic World At Bubba Gump, he recognised a customer: Rae Dawn Chong, an actor who had appeared in 80s hits Commando and The Color Purple.
(17) That elusive must-see aura – a combination in 1993 of Hollywood’s most starred director Steven Spielberg and Industrial Light & Magic’s then-unique special-effects prowess – was what made Jurassic Park the first $1bn film; 22 years later though, Spielberg is only executive-producing, and CGI is very much the bog-standard grouting of the blockbuster industry.
(18) Chris Pratt’s next attempt to cement his action-hero status in Jurassic World sees him in the relatively untested hands of writer and director Colin Trevorrow, known for just one movie – the lo-fi time-travel indie Safety Not Guaranteed; Fox’s latest attempt to reboot The Fantastic Four sees Josh Trank, director of impressive found-footage thriller Chronicle, getting a chance to shine; and Looper’s Rian Johnson has been hired as the director of Star Wars Episode VIII.
(19) Elsewhere in Dorset, we've rounded-up the best days out in east and west of the county; and the best campsites , many of which overlook the Jurassic coast.
(20) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – the five finest fan theories Read more If Abrams’s critically acclaimed film does fail to surpass Jurassic World, studio bosses can point to the fact that the movie does not hit screens in the world’s most populous nation until 9 January.
Mesozoic
Definition:
(a.) Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.
(n.) The Mesozoic age or formation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diversity of tetrapods increased from the Devonian to the Permian, remained roughly constant during the Mesozoic, and then began to increase in the late Cretaceous, and continued to do so during the Tertiary.
(2) Major groups of modern mammals have their origins in the Mesozoic Era, yet the mammalian fossil record is generally poor for that time interval.
(3) The distribution of enamel tubules, the shapes and arrangements of prisms, and the orientation of crystals in ground sections from several therapsids and mesozoic mammals have been investigated by conventional and polarizing microscopy.
(4) Simpson's monographs of 1928 and 1929, progress in the study of Mesozoic mammals has been largely dependent on new finds.
(5) In general, the small subunit nuclear sequences appear to be best for elucidating Precambrian divergences, the large subunit nuclear sequences for Paleozoic and Mesozoic divergences, and the organellar sequences of both subunits for Cenozoic divergences.
(6) Thus, it represents a primitive lineage that was present during the diversification of turtle lineages in the mid-Mesozoic era.
(7) Of the suborders present in the Paleozoic, seven are morphologically relatively simple, slowly evolving, and continued into Mesozoic and Cenozoic times to become the ancestoral lineages from which evolved several additional post-Paleozoic suborders.
(8) That’s why the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs put many of its computer-generated creations against the backdrop of Conguillío’s “living fossils”, which date to the mesozoic age.
(9) The preliminary implication of these observations is that the mechanism of physiological color change involving MCH and its melanophore receptors evolved near the end of the Paleozoic or during the early Mesozoic, just before or early in the evolution of neopterygian (holostean and teleostean) fishes.
(10) He has lent his name to a Mesozoic reptile, a fossilised armoured fish, a species of Ecuadorian tree, one of the world's largest-pitchered carnivorous plants, and one of only four species of long-beaked echidna.
(11) The break from constant or increasing rates during the Mesozoic to decreasing rates during the Cenozoic appears to coincide with extraordinary diversification of placental mammals at the beginning of this era.
(12) A major impetus to renewed investigation came from the discoveries of Mesozoic mammals by Walter Kühne in 1939 and during the immediate post-war years.
(13) Blanding is also home to the Blanding Dinosaur Museum , which features rotating exhibits on Utah's rich Mesozoic history, including fossilised eggs and baby dinosaurs.
(14) A model of evolutionary transformation of the dentale-tympanicum complex in mesozoic mammals in outlined on the basis of the ontogenetic findings in Monodelphis and other didelphid and dasyurid marsupials.
(15) Studies of Mesozoic mammals, begun some 150 years ago, are based on rare and fragmentary fossils, principally jaws and teeth.
(16) Paleontologic and zoogeographic data speak in favour of Mesozoic origin of ixodid ticks.