Tithonian

Etymology
. Named by German paleontologist in 1865. In Greek mythology, was the lover of Eos, goddess of the dawn. The Tithonian is the last age of the Jurassic, coming immediately before the dawn of the Cretaceous.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A geological age or stage, from 152.1 ±0.9 to ~145.0 mya.

Hypernyms

 * - eon; Mesozoic - era; Jurassic - period; Upper Jurassic - epoch

Translations

 * Catalan: Titonià
 * Dutch: Tithonien
 * Finnish: Tithonos-vaihe
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: Titonium
 * Hungarian: Tithon
 * Italian: Tithoniano
 * Polish: tyton
 * Spanish: Titonico