Mesozoic

(noun.) from 230 million to 63 million years ago.

(adj.) of or relating to or denoting the Mesozoic era .

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• They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such plants had already been in evidence in the later levels of the (American Cretaceous) Mesozoic, but now they dominated the scene altogether. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But there is not a scrap, not a bone, to suggest that there lived any Mesozoic Mammal which could look a dinosaur in the face. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Mesozoic life, animal and vegetable alike, was adapted to warm conditions and capable of little resistance to cold. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They must have had a grotesque resemblance to heraldic dragons, and they played the part of bat-like birds in the Mesozoic jungles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Possibly the implement-using disposition was already present in the Mesozoic ancestry from which we are descended. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The range of life of the Mesozoic Period as we know it was confined to water and fairly low-lying valley regions under equable conditions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Right up to the latest Mesozoic Rocks we find all these reptilian orders we have enumerated still flourishing unchallenged. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When one speaks of conifers in the Mesozoic the reader must not think of the pines and firs that clothe the high mountain slopes of our time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Probably the Mesozoic was not an age of very brightly coloured vegetation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have lived throughout the Mesozoic period. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Yet in all the relics of the Mesozoic time we find no certain memorials of his ancestry. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Were there mammals in the Mesozoic period? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Mesozoic Period would still have found him setting bounds to life far more limited than the bounds that are set to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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