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Jurassic Animals & Plants

Published on Jan 31, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Jurassic Plants
and More

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About the Jurassic Time Period

  • 145.5 to 201 million years ago. As the Earth changed, more plants grew.
  • Trees began to grow and there were forests.
  • The herbivore (plant-eating) dinosaurs were bigger, so the carnivore (meat-eating) dinosaurs had to get bigger also so they could hunt the herbivores.
  • There were lots of flying and swimming reptiles, as well.
Photo by Keoni Cabral

Jurassic Dinosaurs

  • The Jurassic is the middle period of the Age of Dinosaurs. Jurassic dinosaurs were the biggest animals to ever walk the Earth.
  • Herbivores such as Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Stegosaurus.
  • Carnivores such as Allosaurus, Megalosaurus and Yangchuanosaurus.
Photo by kamirao

Jurassic Plants

  • Mosses and liverworts survived from the Triassic period. They were found in swampy, moist areas.
  • During the Jurassic period, mosses and liverworts continued. Additionally, forests of cycads, ferns, gingko trees and conifers grew. These plants can still be seen today!
  • Let's take a look...
Photo by EssjayNZ

Cycads

The most abundant plants during the Jurassic Period.

Cycads

Photo by 5u5

Ferns

Photo by Jim Dollar

Gingko trees

Photo by yashima

Gingko trees

Gingko tree in Fall

Conifers

Including: redwoods, cypress and pines
Photo by iagoarchangel

A conifer is a tree that bears cones and evergreen needlelike or scalelike leaves.

Photo by Jim Morefield

Conifer trees

Photo by axelkr

Conifer family: Redwoods

Conifer family: Cypress

Photo by FreeWine

Conifer family: Pine trees

Photo by Horia Varlan

Moss and liverwort

Lived in swampy, moist areas. Survived from the Triassic. Still live today!

Moss on a rock

Liverwort

Photo by Ales Kladnik

Moss on the ground with conifer trees