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Definition of Paleozoic era
1. 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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paleozoic Era
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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