JURASSIC PERIOD

TIMEFRAME

• It is in the Mesozoic Era
• It last from 201 to 145 millions years ago.

ANIMALS

• It known as age of reptiles
• There were land animals such as the following
• The diplodocus, allosaurus, and stegosaurus
• There were water animals such as the following
• The gastropod, pliosaurus, and ichthyosaurs

PLANTS

• The large majority of trees were conifers
• Low latitude vegetation were ginkgoes
• Then in the shrubbery the ferns dominated

CLIMATE

• Jurassic began as a very arid desert covered earth
• As it went the climate change to a humid jungle climate
• Desert were turning into lush rainforest

MAJOR EVENTS

• The supercontinent Pangaea has began to rift apart
• It splits into Laurasia and Gonawanaland
• The split caused the climate shift in this period

MAJOR EVENTS

• There were three extinctions i the period
• The Triassic-Jurassic extinction at the beginning
• Also had the late Pienbachian/early Toarcian event
• Then the late Tithonian event
• None of these are in the “Big 5” extinctions

RESOURCES

• Wikipedia
• Google
• Google Images