JURASSIC

ABOUT

• Between 200 Ma and 146 Ma
• Triassic Period comes before the Jurassic Period
• Cretaceous Period comes afterwards

WHAT HAPPENED

• Two major groups of dinosaurs evolved
• Dinosaurs included Herbivores and Carnivores
• Weighed up to 15 tons and as long as 30 m long

ANIMALS

• Saurischians are lizard hip dinosaurs
• Apatosaurus were the first Herbivores weighed 50 tons
• Ornithischians were "bird-hipped" animals

PLANT LIFE

• low-growing mosses and liverworts that lacked vascular tissue and were confined to swampy moist areas.
• Ferns and gingkoes
• cone-bearing plants

CLIMATE

• Much of the Jurassic world was warm and moist, with a greenhouse climate.
• Coal deposits formed under forests