Silurian
pronunciation
How to pronounce Silurian in British English:
UK [saiˈljuəriən,si-]
How to pronounce Silurian in American English:
US [sɪˈlʊriən, saɪ-]
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- Noun:
- from 425 million to 405 million years ago; first air-breathing animals
Word Origin
- Silurian (adj.)
- 1708, "pertaining to the Silures," from Latin Silures "ancient British tribe inhabiting southeast Wales." Geological sense is from 1835, coined by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) because rocks of this period are especially frequent in Wales.
Example
- 1. Middle and late early silurian brachiopod faunas in southwest china .
- 2. Brief note on the silurian stratigraphy of eastern yunnan .
- 3. Research on intelligent slope-disaster prediction in enshi silurian stratum region .
- 4. Silurian and devonian tabulate coral assemblages in the beishan area , gansu province .
- 5. Special papers in palaeontology , number 83 , silurian conodonts from the yangtze platform , south china .