What plants and animals existed in the Triassic period?

Answer 1

Plants in the Triassic included lycophotes, cycads, and ginkgophyta. The dominant trees in the northern hemisphere were conifers, while in the Southern Hemisphere the dominant trees were Glossopteris (a type of seed fern).

Answer 2

There were too many types of animals and plants that lived during the Triassic for me to list. However, I hope this list will give you a general idea of the fauna and flora of the Triassic.

FLORA

Primitive Conifers

Ferns

Mosses

Tree Ferns

Cycads

Cycadeoids

Lycophytes

Gingkoes

Seed Ferns

Note: NO plants at the time had flowers or true fruits.

FAUNA

Reptiles

Ancestors of dinosaurs

Early, and relatively small dinosaurs, such as Coelophysis, Eoraptor, and prosauropods (early, long necked herbivores.

Phytosaurs (reptiles that appeared and lived similarly to modern crocodillians)

Aeotsaurs, heavily armored, plant-eating reptiles, superficially similar to the Ankylosaurs (which were not related, and lived nearly 100 million years later, not during the Triassic)

Early Turtles

Rauisuchia (four legged, "crocodile headed" land dwelling predators whose legs were underneath their body, not sprawled out)

The first true lizards

Rhynchosaurs (large, four legged, herbivorous reptiles with tusks like those of a hippopotamus)

Cynodonts (small, mammal-like reptiles)

Amphibians

Temnospondyls (huge amphibians, many of which had lifestyles similar to those of crocodillians)

Relatives of frogs and salamanders

Mammals

True mammals did not evolve until shortly after the end of the Triassic

Birds

Birds did not evolve for nearly a hundred million years after the Triassic

Fish

Fish lived in the oceans and freshwater. Lungfish were common in freshwater habitats.

Icthyosaurs

Superficially dolphin-like reptiles

Insects

A wide variety of insects that were similar to modern ones, excepting pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies, because there were no flowers at that time.

Answer 3

Many species flourished in the triassic. Although the dinosaurs first appeared in the Triassic, they were by no means "flourishing". Many strange species of diapsids however, and the first mammals were abundant. Such examples are postosuchus, saurosuchus, rutiodon, placerias, proterosuchus, and sinoconodon.

Answer 4

The animals that lived in the Triassic include therapsids, early dinosaurs (such as herrerasaurids and coelophysoids), raisuchids and early archosauromorphs.

Answer 5

other than dinosaurs there were protomammals , crocidilians , lizards, fish and ocean dwelling reptiles.

Answer 6

Dinosaurs, mammals, and gymnosperms

Answer 7

Reptiles

Answer 8

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