Reptilian age (Geol.), that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age.

reptilian, n.

One of the Reptilia; a reptile. [1913 Webster]

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reptilian

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