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Triassic  adj.  (Geol.) Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.





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... apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of the teleostean fishes, low down, according to Agassiz, in the Chalk period. This group includes the large majority of existing species. But certain Jurassic and Triassic forms are now commonly admitted to be teleostean; and even some palaeozoic forms have thus been classed by one high authority. If the teleosteans had really appeared suddenly in the northern hemisphere at the commencement of the chalk ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
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... Fishes, including the great whales, and birds; after them, all varieties of terrestrial animals except birds. Nothing could be further from the facts as we find them; we know of not the slightest evidence of the existence of birds before the Jurassic, or perhaps the Triassic, formation; while terrestrial animals, as we have just seen, occur in ...
— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley
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Words linked to "Triassic" :   Triassic period, Mesozoic, geological period, Age of Reptiles, period


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