Mesozoic AgeE- task

By Maekayla Tran4 RED

Triassic period

Plants• Horsetails were an important

source of nutrition for plant eating dinosaurs.

• Leptocycas was a cycad, a primitive seed plant from the late Triassic period

• Glossopteris is a tree-like seed fern from the Permian through the Triassic period.

Animals• Desmatosuchus is an extinct reptile

that lived over 200 million years ago.

• Fabrosaurus is a small plant eating dinosaur from South Africa

• Gerrothorax is an amphibian ancient amphibian that lived over 200 million years ago.

Jurassic period Plants• WilliamSonia sewardiana was a

cycadeoidphyte (a bennettitalean). It had a long, thin, woody stem and simple leaves.

• Most wild ferns prefer a moist

woodland habitat with high humidity. However, there are ferns suited for all environments from rock cliffs to swampy bogs.

• Mosses are simple and ancient plants that have survived nearly unchanged since the Permian period.

Animals• A cryptoclidus is a large swimming

reptile also known as a plesiosaur.

• A Incythosaurus An extinct marine reptile from the time of the dinosaurs - not a dinosaur.

• A Ramphorhynchus is a flying, fish-eating reptile with a long tail; it lived during the late Jurassic period.

Cretaceous period

Plants• These slow-growing evergreen

trees and shrubs probably constituted the majority of the herbivorous dinosaurs' diet.

• Ginkgo leaves, fruits and stem Ginkgoes are often planted in cities. Herbivores usually eat the ginkgo leaves from trees.

Animals• A hadrosaurus is a duck

billed plant eating dinosaur during the late cretaceous period .

• A parasaurohlophus is along-crested plant-eating dinosaur .

• A stygimoloch is a plant-eater with many horns and bumps on its skull.