THE TRIASSIC

THE TRIASSIC PERIOD

• Dates back to 250-200 million years ago
• Came between the Permian and Jurassic time periods
• During the Mesozoic era

CLIMATE IN THE TRIASSIC

• Temperature averages 17 degrees C.
• Hot and dry overall
• Very seasonal
• Hot summers
• Cold winters

GEOLOGIC EVENTS YOULL BE EXPERIENCING

• Pangea first begins to split
• The beginning of continental rifting
• It caused stretching in the crust of NA along the Appalachian man belt
• Mass extinction

NORTH AMERICA WAS STILL A PART OF PANGEA

WILDLIFE OF THE TRIASSIC

• The worlds first dinosaurs appeared during the Triassic.
• They included the archosaurs, and tyrannosaurus
• Cephalopoda
• Amphibians
• Therapsids

PLANT LIFE OF THE TRIASSIC

• The plant life included...
• Gymnosperms
• Cycadeoids
• Cycads and ginkgoes
• Club mosses

RESOURCES

• Encyclopedia Brittanica
• Wikipedia
• eden.uktv.co.uk/nature/animals/dinosaurs/article/triassic-period-facts/