Definition of Paleozoic era

1. Noun. From 544 million to about 230 million years ago.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Paleozoic Era

Paleo-Amerind
Paleo-Amerind culture
Paleo-Indian
Paleo-Indian culture
Paleo Faliro
Paleo Faliron
Paleoarchean
Paleocene
Paleocene epoch
Paleogene
Paleogenic
Paleolithic
Paleolithic Age
Paleoproterozoic
Paleozoic
Paleozoic era
Palermo
Palestine
Palestine Authority
Palestine Islamic Jihad
Palestine Liberation Front
Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestine National Authority
Palestinean
Palestineans
Palestinian
Palestinian Arab
Palestinian Arabic
Palestinian Hizballah
Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Literary usage of Paleozoic era

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"paleozoic era, the second great division of geologic time and the first one in the sediments of which well-preserved organic remains have so far been found ..."

2. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"... CHAPTER XXX THE paleozoic era Comparison of the Paleozoic and Older Records. — With the beginning of Paleozoic time the strata are far less disturbed ..."

3. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"CHAPTER XV THE CAMBRIAN PERIOD The paleozoic era. ... The duration of the Paleozoic era was immense, exceeding that of all subsequent time. i Ozarkian is a ..."

4. A College Text-book of Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1909)
"CLOSE OF THE paleozoic era The close of the paleozoic era was marked by much more considerable geographic changes than the close of any period since the ..."

5. Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell (1908)
"Earth, not «un, the motive force in evolution in the paleozoic era. A LIU i- cloudy Man, ten times that of iron. So that it would have more to part with ..."

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