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The Mesozoic Era [3] is the era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about , comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.It is characterized by the dominance of gymnosperms such as cycads, ginkgoaceae and araucarian conifers, and of archosaurian reptiles such as the dinosaurs; a hot greenhouse climate; and the tectonic break-up of Pangaea.
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The Mesoproterozoic was the first era of Earth's history for which a fairly definitive geological record survives. Continents existed during the preceding era (the Paleoproterozoic), but little is known about them. The continental masses of the Mesoproterozoic were more or less the same ones that exist today, although their arrangement on the ...
The many dinosaur books I read all give different dates for the beginning and starting points of the Mesozoic periods. The Triassic fluctuates from 248-213 to 235-195 million years ago and the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary shifts between 145 and 130 million years. What is the right timeline? Personally I think it's this: Triassic- 245-200 mya
This category contains events which happened in the Mesozoic, a division of the geologic time scale. See geologic time scale for information about its divisions and how they relate to each other. See also the preceding Category:Paleozoic and the succeeding Category:Cenozoic
Mesozoic and Tertiary fossil mammals and birds of Great Britain (2005, with L. Cook, D. Schreve, A Currant, and J. J. Hooker) ISBN 9781861074805; Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record (2009, with David A.T Harper) ISBN 9781405141574; The first four billion years Benton, Michael J. (2009). "Paleontology and the History of Life". In ...
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