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The major events in he Triassic time period are Pangea{the supercontinet}, It follows the largest extinction in history, animals, plants, and reptiles appeared, and when surviors of that event spread and recolonized.
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∙ 11y agoThe early Triassic period, which comes right after the largest mass extinction in earth's history, was a time of recovery fo earth and a time for diversification of life. In the mid to late Triassic period three important new groups of animals appeared: pterosaurs (flying reptiles), dinosaurs, and mammals.
The synapsid reptiles, which were related to mammals, were in a period of decline and were never able to fully recover from the mass extinction. While their descendants, the mammals, would survive this group of reptiles would become extinct my the end of the Jurassic period.
The mammals of this time were primitive. They laid eggs and simply secreted a milk-like substance rather than having teats to feat their young through. Mammals would remain small and play a relatively small role until the end of the Cretaceous period.
Closely relater to dinosaurs, the pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to fly where the only previous fliers were insects and would later come to share the skies with birds. Their wings were membranes of skin stretched on very long digits. Triassic Pterosaurs were small. These animals would go extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period.
The dinosaurs were perhaps the most important new group of the Triassic. Contrary to classic depictions these animals were fairly swift and possibly warm-blooded. They would come to dominate the earth for 160 million years. They would be decimate at the end of the Cretaceous period, leaving the birds as the only group of dinosaurs alive.
At the end of the Triassic period there was another mass extinction event. This wiped out a number of different groups of reptile, leaving the dinosaurs with more room to diversify in the next period, the Jurassic.
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∙ 13y agoBig volcanic explosion kills all of the dinosaurs.Plants started growing 248 million years ago.
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∙ 12y agodinos go bye-bye for good
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What Era did dinosaurs live in?
The dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic Era, which includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. The first dinosaurs appeared in the late Triassic and went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous.
Which fossil might be found in the red sandstone layer if the layer was deposited during the Triassic period?
GUYS THE ANSWER IS DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT NOT FRIKING MAMMALS
Scientists believe that humans arrived on earth during what period. A quaternary. B tertiary. C cretaceous. D triassic?
scientists belive human beings first developed on earth during :- A. quaternary.
What period of time did ammonites live in?
Devonian to cretaceous is the the geological age of ammonoids They first appeared during the Devonian Period (approximately 410 million years ago). They almost died out at the end of the Permian Period (251 million years ago), and again at the end of the Triassic Period (205 million years ago). They finally became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period (65 million years ago), perhaps as a result of a lowering of ocean levels.
What did the earth's surface look like in the Jurassic time period?
During the Triassic, almost all the Earth's land mass was concentrated into a single supercontinent centered more or less on the equator, called Pangaea. From the east a vast gulf entered Pangaea, the Tethys sea. It opened farther westward in the mid-Triassic, at the expense of the shrinking Paleo-Tethys Ocean, an ocean that existed during the Paleozoic. The remaining shores were surrounded by the world-ocean known as Panthalassa. All the deep-ocean sediments laid down during the Triassic have disappeared through subduction of oceanic plates; thus, very little is known of the Triassic open ocean. The supercontinent Pangaea was rifting during the Triassic-especially late in the period-but had not yet separated. The first nonmarine sediments in the rift that marks the initial break-up of Pangaea-which separated New Jersey from Morocco-are of Late Triassic age; in the U.S., these thick sediments comprise the Newark Group. Because of the limited shoreline of one super-continental mass, Triassic marine deposits are globally relatively rare, despite their prominence in Western Europe, where the Triassic was first studied. In North America, for example, marine deposits are limited to a few exposures in the west. Thus Triassic stratigraphy is mostly based on organisms living in lagoons and hypersaline environments, such as Estheria crustaceans.At the beginning of the Mesozoic Era, Africa was joined with Earth's other continents in Pangaea. Africa shared the supercontinent's relatively uniform fauna which was dominated by theropods, prosauropods and primitive ornithischians by the close of the Triassic period. Late Triassic fossils are found through-out Africa, but are more common in the south than north. The boundary separating the Triassic and Jurassic marks the advent of an extinction event with global impact, although African strata from this time period have not been thoroughly studied.some what like panagea
Did the thrinaxodon go extinct during the End Triassic extinction?
Thrinaxodon lived during the Triassic Period. They died out about 245 million years ago, at the end of the Olenekian portion of the Triassic period.
What Mammals first appeared during the .?
Triassic Period! :)
Were there Plant during the triassic?
yes there were plants during this time period. there were trees
Did apple tree exist in the triassic period?
No. Fruit trees first appeared during the Cretaceous, two periods after the Triassic. The only trees in the Triassic were conifers.
What were the dominant organisms living during the triassic period?
Adam And Eve
Index fossils during triassic period?
Tropites subbullatusMonotis subcircularis
How was the Triassic period a transitional time period during the Mesozoic era?
I believe that dont know
What comes after triassic?
The period after the Triassic is the Jurassic.
Which was earlier the Triassic or Jurassic Period?
Triassic
Did dinosaurs roam the lands during the pennsylvanian period?
No. the first Dinosaurs were in the Triassic period, which came later
What came after the triassic period?
After the Triassic period, the Jurassic period began, followed by the Cretaceous.
What is an fact about the Triassic period?
the differenses between triassic period and the jurassic period is that idk i will have to think about it.
