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The Mesozoic Era is the second of the three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, spanning from roughly 252.17 to 66 million years ago. The era is subdivided into three major periods: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, which are further subdivided into a number of epochs and stages. The Mesozoic comes after the Paleozoic Era, and is followed by the Cenozoic Era.
General[edit]
- "An Attempt to Account for the Origin and the Formation of the Extraneous Fossil commonly called the Belemnite" by Joshua Platt in Philosophical Transactions, volume 54 (1764)
- "Giant Reptiles of a Past Age" by in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (February 1889)
- Strange Creatures of the Past, 1897 by William H. Ballou, from Century Magazine
Triassic[edit]
Jurassic[edit]
- "Footprints in the Rocks" by in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (August 1873)
- "The Great Cemetery in Colorado" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (February 1874)
Cretaceous[edit]
- "The Iguanodon" in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (January 1884)
- "Notice of Gigantic Horned Dinosauria from the Cretaceous," by Othniel Charles Marsh in The American Journal of Science, Series 3, Volume 38 (1889), first description and naming of Triceratops.
- "Tyrannosaurus and Other Cretaceous Carnivorous Dinosaurs," by Henry Fairfield Osborn in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 21, article 14 (1905), first description and naming of T. rex.