Mesozoicum
Mesozoicum est aerathema stratigraphicum et aera geologica aeonis Phanerozoici, antecessore Palaeozoico, successore Caenozoico. Mesozoicum et Triassicum incepta ab antiquissimis fossilibus Hindeodi parvi dantur.

Commissio Internationalis Stratigraphica terminum Cretaceum Palaeogenicum definit ab anomalia iridii qua vestigia illisionis meteoritae iuxta Chicxulub in stratis geologicis per omnem terrarum orbem inscribuntur. Hic terminus inceptum indicat aerae Caenozoicae, systemati Palaeogenico, seriei Palaeocaenae, stadio Danio, perfectionemque aerae Mesozoicae, systemati Cretaceo, seriei Cretaceo superiori, stadio Maastrichtio.

Nomen "Mesozoicum", per exemplum Palaeozoici iam nominati, Anglice sub forma Mesozoic anno 1840 ab Ioanne Phillips propositum est. E verbis Graecis μεσός "medius", καινός "novus", ζῷον "animal" componuntur.

Panthalassa

Notae

Bibliographia 
 Luis A. Buatois et al., "The Mesozoic Marine Revolution" in M. G. Mangano, L. A. Buatois, edd., The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016) pp. 19-134
 Felix Gradstein et al., "A Mesozoic time scale" in Journal of Geophysical Research vol. 99 (1994) pp. 24051-24074
 Bilal U. Haq et al., "Mesozoic and Cenozoic chronostratigraphy and eustatic cycles" in Sea-Level Changes: an integrated approach (Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication no. 42) pp. 71-108
 Thomas R. Holtz, Ralph E. Chapman, "Mesozoic biogeography of dinosauria" in Dinosaur Paleontology
 Stephen McLoughlin, Benjamin P. Kear, edd., Gondwanan Mesozoic biotas and bioevents (Gondwana Research vol. 27 no. 3, 2015) Praefatio
 A. M. Ziegler, C. R. Scotese, S. F. Barrett, "Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleogeographic Maps" in Brosche et Sündermann, Tidal Friction and the Earth's Rotation vol. 2 (Springer, 1983) pp. 240-252

Nexus externi 

 Yamila Gurovich, Bio-evolutionary aspects of Mesozoic mammals: description, phylogenetic relationships and evolution of the Gondwanatheria (dissertatio Bonaeropolitana, 2005)

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