Triassic period THE FIRST PERIOD OF THE MESOZOIC ERA.

LANDSCAPE  All the land was one big mass  It was called Pangaea

CLIMATE  The climate was very hot and dry.  In this period the seas were very hot.

MAMMALS AND OTHER ANIMALS  The first mammals evolved during the Triassic period.  Some reptiles, frogs, turtles and crocodiles existed earlier than Dinosaurs.  Dinosaurs didn’t appear until late in the Triassic period.

PLANTS AND VEGETATION  In the Triassic period there were lots of plants and vegetation.  There were seed ferns leptocycas glossopteris and ever greens.

WHAT WERE THE DINOSAURS LIKE IN GENERAl?  One of the first true dinosaurs was a Coelophysis  Another dinosaur was a Plateosaurus  Finally there was a Nothosauus

COELOPHYSIS  They had scaly orange,black and brown skin.  They also had a long neck.  They were carnivores.

PLATESAURUS  They had green and black stripy skin  They were vegeterians

NOTHOSAURUS  They had sharp teeth and scaly skin.  They were carnivores.

END OF THE PERIOD  During the final 18 million years of the Triassic period there was a few parts of extinction. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT DINOSAURS IN THIS PERIODCLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT DINOSAURS IN THIS PERIOD