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Article: Mesozoic Era
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... years ago (mya) and 65 mya. The Mesozoic Era contains three geologic ... Period (144 mya to 65 mya). The Mesozoic Era begins at the end of the ... by the middle of the Mesozoic Era (approximately 170 mya) the North American and ...

Encyclopedia entry: Mesozoic era
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      556 words ...Mesozoic era [Gr.,=middle life], major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale , table) from 65 to 225 million years ago ...

Article: Maine volcanoes erupted in Mesozoic Era
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  July 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... volcanoes, ancient volcanic rocks are preserved in many parts of Maine, but there have not been any active volcanoes since the Mesozoic Era. An interesting aspect of Maine's bedrock is that it records a wide array of geologic environments that have been present ...

Article: PALEONTOLOGISTS DISCOVER NEW MAMMAL FROM MESOZOIC ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of American and Chinese paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era, in what is now the Hebei Province in China. The new mammal, documented in the March 15 issue of the journal Nature ...

Article: Crayfish existed in Australia as far back as the Mesozoic ...
The Hindustan Times;  February 7, 2008 ;     556 words ... ... Victoria, Australia, has provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era. Martin, a senior lecturer in environmental studies at Emory University, and a consortium of Australian scientists conducted ...

A Window on the Mesozoic Era: DINOSAUR RIDGE, Morrison, ...
Rocks & Minerals;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...One of the country's best localities to see dinosaur tracks and bones is located on the western edge of the Denver metropolitan area. Dinosaur Ridge has a history dating back to 1877 and is well known to students of paleontology, but until about ten years ago, familiarity with the site was confined

Article: JURASSIC IN PLASTIC DINOSAURS WEREN'T THIS HOT IN THE ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 6, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Byline: MARK MC GUIRE - Staff writer Sean O'Connell, full-time paleozoologist, part-time 5-year-old, rattled off the names of the prehistoric lizards with startling accuracy. "That's a spiketail, a dimetrodon," the Wynantskill youth said. "That's probably a pterodactyl. Triceratops are nice. That's