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Definition of Paleozoic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or denoting the Paleozoic era.
2. Noun. From 544 million to about 230 million years ago.
Terms within: Permian, Permian Period, Carboniferous, Carboniferous Period, Age Of Fishes, Devonian, Devonian Period, Silurian, Silurian Period, Ordovician, Ordovician Period, Cambrian, Cambrian Period
Generic synonyms: Era, Geological Era
Definition of Paleozoic
1. a. Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.
Definition of Paleozoic
1. Adjective. (geology) Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods from about 542 to 250 million years ago, from the age of trilobites to that of reptiles. ¹
2. Proper noun. (geology) The Paleozoic era. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paleozoic
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Medical Definition of Paleozoic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Paleozoic
Literary usage of Paleozoic
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)
"The following subdivisions of the Paleozoic are recognized: GILBERT VAN ...
Paleozoic ERA, the second great division of geologic time and the first one in ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"Paleozoic time is naturally divided into two sections at the break between ...
These sections are here named by using prefixes to the term paleozoic derived ..."
3. An Introduction to Historical Geology: With Special Reference to North America by William John Miller (1916)
"1 Paleozoic ROCKS Paleozoic rocks are dominantly sandstones, ... In Europe the
estimated maximum thickness of Paleozoic strata is 75000 to 100000 feet. ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"In the succeeding eras, through the Paleozoic, — eras of prolonged quiet, — there
were slow oscillations in progress over the continent, and, ..."
5. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"With the beginning of Paleozoic time the strata are far less disturbed and have
... In other words, because of the abundance of fossils in the Paleozoic and ..."
6. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1908)
"Paleozoic EVENTS. At the beginning of the Paleozoic Era by far the greater part
of our continent, with the exception of the above land, was beneath the sea ..."
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