what is the best and/or std nomenclature for ...

[hammeris1@bellsouth.net]

... post-Permian, pre-KT other than Mesozoic, or is there one?

Or, to be more precise, I guess I'd like a term to describe the period of the 
appearance of what is known as "dinosaur" in the mid-Triassic ---> end of 
Cretaceous.

I love that birdosaurs/dino-birds etc. have survived to the present day,
but excluding cladistics for a moment (I  know, the horror! the horror!) what is
a "dinosaur" in the vernacular is still more or less Godzilla rather than Big 
Bird - 
in a layman's view.

Now, if you guys can bio-engineer an extinct toothed-bird back into existence,
my very humble amateur ears will perk up considerably, but my interest in most
of my queries concerns the Mesozoic, and would like to phrase my questions 
accordingly.

Thanks