Tethys

Definitions

1. Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
   Greek
2. A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
3. The iteration of this oceanic basin during the Mesozoic, the most recent iteration.
4. A moon of Saturn.

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“Much of the Tethys was shallow and warm during the Mesozoic, and full of life, a marine paradise of sorts: ammonites and sharks thrived, and are now preserved as fossils that date⟳ the rocks.”

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