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Paleozoic

adjective

Of or relating to or denoting the Paleozoic era.

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"Paleozoic" Quotes from Famous Books

... was splashing in my tub, gratifying that amphibious instinct which has come down to us from the dim evolutionary time when we were paleozoic polliwogs, when I made the discovery that there were no towels in the bathroom. I glanced about keenly, seeking for help and guidance in such an emergency. Set in the wall directly above the rim of ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... "Then, the Paleozoic limit having been reached, it was necessary to start a new age to make the reptiles. Man would have to have some reptiles—not to eat, but to develop himself from. Thirty million years were required for the reptiles, and out of such material as was left were made those stupendous ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

Words linked to "Paleozoic" : geological era, carboniferous, Silurian, Ordovician period, Ordovician, Silurian period, Permian, Carboniferous period, Permian period, Devonian period, Cambrian, Devonian, Age of Fishes, era, Cambrian period, Paleozoic era