Definition of Anisian
geology
: of, relating to, or being the earliest division of the Middle Triassic lasting from approximately 245 million years ago until 237 million years ago
- However, vertebrate paleontological evidence, as yet unsupported by palynology, seems to show that some associated sediment of the Fundy Basin probably is even older than Ladinian, referable to the preceding Anisian Stage.
- —Alfred Traverse, Science, 12 June 1987
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Anisian
noun-
- The first normal marine gastropod assemblages appeared during the Anisian, at the time of the general reappearance of marine communities.
- —Evolutionary Paleobiology, 1996
