Nomen "Mesozoicum," per exemplum Palaeozoici iam nominati, Anglice sub forma Mesozoic anno 1840 ab Ioanne Phillips propositum est.[3] E verbis Graecis μεσός 'medius', καινός 'novus', ζῷον 'animal' componuntur.[4]
"Mesozoicum": Robertus Koeppel, Praelectiones geologiae et praehistoriae pars 1 iii (Romae, 1933), 5, apud Google Books: (Paginae selectae apud Google Books).
"As many systems or combinations of organic forms as are clearly traceable in the stratified crust of the globe, so many corresponding terms (as Palæozoic, Mesozoic, Kainozoic, &c.) may be made": John Phillips, "Palæozoic series" in Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge vol. 17 (1840) pp. 153–54,
De historia nominis definitionisque vide: Mary Grace Wilmarth, The Geologic Time Classification of the United States Geological Survey Compared With Other Classifications, accompanied by the original definitions of era, period and epoch terms (United States Geological Survey Bulletin no. 769. Vasingtoniae: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925) (p. 9 apud Google Books).
Luis A. Buatois et al., "The Mesozoic Marine Revolution" in M. G. Mangano, L. A. Buatois, edd., The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016) pp. 19-134.
Felix Gradstein et al., "A Mesozoic time scale" in Journal of Geophysical Research vol. 99 (1994) pp. 24051-24074.
Stephen McLoughlin, Benjamin P. Kear, edd., Gondwanan Mesozoic biotas and bioevents (Gondwana Research vol. 27 no. 3, 2015) Praefatio.
A. M. Ziegler, C. R. Scotese, S. F. Barrett, "Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleogeographic Maps" in Brosche et Sündermann, Tidal Friction and the Earth's Rotation vol. 2 (Springer, 1983) pp. 240-252.