Jurassic

English Etymology en fr Jurassique, named for the discovery and type location in the en Jura Mountains of Switzerland. The -assic suffix was extracted from en Triassic. Pronunciation jo͝o-răs'ĭk, en /d͡ʒʊˈɹæs.ɪk/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-Jurassic.wav US en æsɪk 3 Adjective - en geology Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs. en 1990 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park Alfred A. Knopf 94 His father squinted at the skeleton. “What is it, Jurassic?” “Jeez. No. Cretaceous.” “Cretaceous? What's the difference between Cretaceous and Jurassic?” “Only about a hundred million years,” Tim said. “Cretaceous is older?” “No, Dad, Jurassic is older.” en 2017-08-09 Mark Carnall w:The Guardian Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/why-do-cephalopods-produce-ink-and-what-on-earth-is-it-anyway Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004). https://web.archive.org/web/20260112040033/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/why-do-cephalopods-produce-ink-and-what-on-earth-is-it-anyway en by extension proscribed Of or pertaining to the Mesozoic era as a whole. Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe. en 1910 Peter Kropotkin Anarchism Encyclopædia Britannica The Jurassic, the Spanish and the Italian federations and sections of the International Working Men's Association, as also the French, the German and the American anarchist groups, were for the next years the chief centres of anarchist thought and propaganda. en informal Very old-fashioned and outdated. en 2009 March Skiing Heritage Journal Women's Ski Jumping Takes Aim at the Winter Olympics Byron Rempel 21 1 17 Those fears and excuses seem positively Jurassic more than eighty years later. en 2017 The Silent Corner Dean Koontz 93 For every three shops or restaurants that looked as if they might have had a poster of Che Guevara somewhere on the premises, there was one stubborn Jurassic retailer offering knit suits for older women or an Italian restaurant that offered all-you-can-eat garlic bread and didn't call itself a trattoria. en 2017 Hiding Boys in Bathrooms: A Decade of Dating Debacles Giuliana Prada Well, thirty compared to twenty-five seemed Jurassic to me back then. Usage notes Scientifically, Jurassic refers to the middle period of the Mesozoic, when creatures like Allosaurus genus, Stegosaurus genus, and Brontosaurus genus lived. This means that many popular dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus genus and Triceratops genus, despite popularly being described as "Jurassic", are not actually from the period. Translations of period from 200 to 145 million years ago Bulgarian: bg юрски Catalan: ca juràssic Czech: cs jurský m Finnish: fi jurakautinen French: fr jurassique Galician: gl xurásico Georgian: ka იურული Hebrew: he יורה yúra Irish: ga Iúrasach Macedonian: mk јурски m Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn юрийн Polish: pl jurajski Portuguese: pt jurássico Turkish: tr Jura old-fashioned and outdated Portuguese: pt jurássico Proper noun en geology paleontology The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period. D. M. Kermack, K. A. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters: [p 108] Like the Forest Marble Beds in the Middle Jurassic, the Purbeck Beds of the Upper Jurassic are deltaic or estuarine in origin, so as well as mammals they contain small, presumably freshwater, crocodiles and the first indisputable lizards. [p 109] This is less surprising if it is recalled that in the Upper Jurassic, Europe and North America were joined to form Laurasia and the Atlantic Ocean still had to be formed [...] en 2017-08-09 Mark Carnall w:The Guardian Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/why-do-cephalopods-produce-ink-and-what-on-earth-is-it-anyway Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004). https://web.archive.org/web/20261013195919/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/why-do-cephalopods-produce-ink-and-what-on-earth-is-it-anyway 13 October 2026 Hypernyms geological period en Phanerozoic - eon; Mesozoic - era Hyponyms geological period en Lower Jurassic, en Middle Jurassic, en Upper Jurassic - epochs; series Coordinate terms geological period en Triassic (preceding), Cretaceous (succeeding) - periods; systems Translations Jurassic period Arabic: ar اَلْعَصْر اَلْجُورَاسِيّ m Bulgarian: bg юра f Catalan: ca juràssic m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 侏羅紀 Zhūluójì Czech: cs jura f Estonian: et juura Finnish: fi jurakausi French: fr jurassique Galician: gl Xurásico m Georgian: ka იურული ხანა, ka იურული სისტემა, ka იურული პერიოდი German: de Jura m Greek: el Ιουρασική f Hebrew: he יוּרָה f yúra Hungarian: hu jura Irish: ga Tréimhse Iúrasach f An Tréimhse Iúrasach, ga Iúrasach m An tIúrasach Japanese: ja ジュラ紀 Jura-ki, ja 侏羅紀 Jura-ki obsolete orthography Korean: ko 쥐라기 Macedonian: mk јура f Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Юрийн галав Mongolian script: mn ᠶᠦᠷ ᠦᠨ ᠭᠠᠯᠪᠠ Norwegian: no jura m Persian: fa ژوراسیک žurâsik Polish: pl jura f Portuguese: pt Jurássico m Russian: ru ю́ра f, ru ю́рский пери́од m Spanish: es Jurásico m Turkish: tr Jura Vietnamese: vi kỉ Giu-ra Further reading See also Appendix:Geologic timescale en 3-syllable words