THE JURASSIC PERIOD

JURASSIC PERIOD

• 199.6 to 145.5 million years ago
• 54-million-year chunk
• Part of the Mesozoic Era
• Came after the Cretaceous period
• Happened before the Triassic period

CLIMATE

• Most of the climate during the Jurassic period was warm and moist
• It had a greenhouse climate
• Most of climate was lush and green

PANGEA

• Pangea was a supercontinent that was occurring during the Jurassic Period
• Laurasia moved away from Africa helping form the Atlantic Ocean
• Enough plates had moved to separate Southern Africa and South America

ANIMALS

• The Jurassic period is know as the age of dinosaurs
• It is also known for early mammals and marine life

MEGALOSAURUS

• The name means "big lizard"
• Carnivore
• 30 to 33 feet long, weighed about 1 ton
• It had long legs, short arms, and large, powerful jaws with sharp teeth

SEISMOSAURUS

• enormous, long-necked, whip-tailed, small-headed dinosaur
• 130-170 feet long
• Herbivore

Ichthyosaurus

• Marine reptile, was 6.5 feet long, weighed about 200 pounds
• tall dorsal fin, a half-moon-shaped tail, paddle-like flippers, and smooth skin
• Diet was mainly fish

PLANTS

• Many dinosaurs needed plants to survive
• The carnivore dinosaurs fed on the herbivores of the Jurassic period

Cycads

• Seeded plants
• Thick and wooded trunk and a crown of stiff evergreen leaves
• Grow close and far away from the ground

CONIFERS

• Cone bearing
• The hardwoods of today
• There are 630 living species living today

RESOURCES

• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/jurassic/jurassic.php
• http://paleobiology.si.edu/geotime/main/htmlversion/jurassic5.html
• http://www.livescience.com/28739-jurassic-period.html
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinotemplates/Jurassicp...