Jurassic means of the middle age of the great reptiles. The Jurassic period, Jurassic rocks, the Jurassic Coast.
It ran from about 201 to 145 million years ago, between the Triassic and the Cretaceous, and it is when the largest sauropods lived and the first birds appeared. The name comes from the Jura mountains between France and Switzerland, where the limestones of the period were first described.
1adjectivejurassicOf the middle age of the great reptiles.
“The museum shows Jurassic fossils found along the cliffs of southern England.”
jurassic is a geological period.
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English, today
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Jurassic French Jurassique, named for the discovery and type location in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. The -assic suffix was extracted from Triassic.
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