permian
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1. permian - Noun
2. permian - Adjective
3. Permian - Proper noun
Meaning
Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era.
The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.
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One light-year is not much as galactic distances go. You could walk it in about 270 million years, beginning at the middle of the Permian Era, when dinosaurs belonged to the remote future, and continuing to the present day.
About 90% of insects at the start of the Permian were cockroach-like insects ( "Blattopterans" ).
All Permian anapsid reptiles died out except the procolophonids ( testudines have anapsid skulls but are most often thought to have evolved later, from diapsid ancestors).
Anoxia seeAlso Evidence for widespread ocean anoxia (severe deficiency of oxygen) and euxinia (presence of hydrogen sulfide ) is found from the Late Permian to the Early Triassic.
Climate Selwyn Rock, South Australia - an exhumed glacial pavement of Permian age The climate in the Permian was quite varied.
Excluding entitlement effects and divestments, liquids production increased 2 percent driven by Permian Basin growth, while natural gas volumes decreased 4 percent.