WHAT TIME IS

IT!?
JURRASIC &
CRETACEOUS
TIME!!
Featuring
Fausto Ramirez
Charles Lorena
Matt Raybuck
Ydain Rodriguez
 In The Beginning
In the beginning there was a major
geological event, Pangea was breaking
apart (the middle of the Jurassic.
Jurassic period started 206 to 144 years
ago)
Laurasia (the northern half) broke off
and became what we know now as north
America and Eurasia
Gondwana (the southern half) broke off
and then split into two pieces
1. The first piece was parts and bits of
Antarctica, Australia, and India
Pangea
 Jurassic Goes Green
Trees are growing everywhere!
Initially the landscape was similar to
that of a desert, but now that the
Pangea split up and water is going
places it could not have gone before,
it turned the climate tropical

(While Pangea was together in the

beginning of the Jurassic, the coasts
were tropical while the inner land was
 Herb Life
There three main plants that grew
predominantly during the Jurassic time
period.
1) Cycads: kind of looked like palms trees
2) Araucaria: Tall trees with branches near
the top
3) Ginkgoes: Looks like a regular tree
 Jurassic Life
During the early Jurassic period, many
dinosaurs still looked like their Triassic
relatives.

However, due to Pangeas splitting up

and causing living conditions to
change dramatically, dinosaurs began
to evolve and fill several types of
niches.
 Sauropods
Jurassic park did get this right,
Sauropods came during this period
Largest dinosaur group in the
jurassic)
 Allosaurus
Big, mean, killing machine that
terrorized sauropods, herbivores, and
anything it felt like eating
The First Birds

Birds originated in the Jurassic from coelurosaurians in this time period, with one of the most

important links being theArchaeopteryx. Though looking like a member of

the theropod group, the fossils found in this time period had feather imprints, implying they began to
evolve into what we see now.
 Ocean Life
Ichthyosaurus were everywhere, and
were very diversified, but then they
died out during the Cretaceous
Sharks were big ballers back in the
day
Fish, ammonites, cephalopods,
belemnites
Ammonites

One of the most abundant types of fossils found in the Jurassic period.
belongs to a group called cephalopods
modern relatives - octopi, squid, nautilus

Evolved rapidly, and was very abundant, so ammonite fossils are used often to divide time periods of
the Jurassic

(source - http://fossilidentification.weebly.com/ammonites.html)
http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/ammonites.htm
 Cretaceous Time
Life goes on as usual after Jurassic
period
Continents were busy remodeling
earth
Brought flowering plants
Cretaceous
Life
 T-rex
They came to dominate the
cretaceous
Grew up to 40 ft. long and 15 to 20
ft. tall
Ate primarily herbivores such as
triceratops
 Utah Raptor
Were found during filming of Jurassic
park
largest raptor ever found
Can you guess where they were
discovered?
triceratops
Othniel C. Marsh
thought it was bison
head
No one knows how
they used their
horns
ate cycads
 Cretaceous Extinction
Event

What killed the dinosaurs?

Cretaceous Extinction
Occurred 65 million years
ago
Second worst mass
extinction event in history
Killed 50% of all the
worlds species
Combination of Factors
Volcanism
Sea Level Regression
Meteor Impact
 Deccan Traps of India
Covered an area of 500,000
sq. km
Estimated volume 512,000
cubic km
Occurred around the time of
the extinction event
 Meteor Impact
10-13 km in diameter. Roughly
the size of Manhattan
Tektites
Shocked Quartz
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