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Mesolithic

adjective

Of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic).

noun

Middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago. Synonyms: Epipaleolithic, Mesolithic Age.

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... III. Mesolithic group, or mesozoic (secondary) group of strata : VII. Triassic : 16. Muschelkalk ...

— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel

... be seen that Lemurian man lived in the age of Reptiles and Pine Forests. The amphibious monsters and the gigantic tree-ferns of the Permian age still flourished in the warm damp climates. Plesiosauri and Icthyosauri swarmed in the tepid marshes of the Mesolithic epoch, but, with the drying up of many of the inland seas, the Dinosauria—the monstrous land reptiles—gradually became the dominant type, while the Pterodactyls—the Saurians which developed bat-like wings—not only crawled on the earth, but flew through the air. The smallest of these latter ...

— The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria • W. Scott-Elliot