Nature made a whole world of complicated creatures in the steamy, luke-warm swamps of the mesozoic era, and then, as if deciding that the pattern of a large body and a small brain was not a success, she froze them all to death with a glacial epoch, and we have nothing but the bones to tell us about them.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
It is in the Chalk, the newest of the Secondary or mesozoic formations, that they first exhibit themselves, and they do it in the same fashion as their predecessors.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
It passed away, and was replaced by the mesozoic, emphatically the age of Reptiles, when animals of that type attained to colossal magnitude, to variety of function and structure, to diversity of habitat in sea and on land, altogether unexampled in their degraded descendants of modern times....
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard