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fandomhigh2022-09-08 08:16 pm
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Intro to Palaeontology, Thursday- 1st Period
In what was perhaps a first for Cutter, he had shown up to his class two weeks in a row. He didn’t have Rex with him this week so he felt it was safe to leave the windows open for the class.
“Good morning,” he said as he stared the lecture, “this week we’re going to begin covering dinosaurs, which seemed to be a point of interest for most of you last week, this is easily a big enough topic to cover an entire course but we’ll go through the cliff notes version over the next few weeks to give an overview of just how dinosaurs came to evolve,”
“Last week I mentioned Rex was from the Permian period, which is actually a good segue into talking about the ‘Age of the Dinosaurs’ so to speak,” he explained as he began to hand out his different notes on the topic, “the first period we’re going to be covering today is the Triassic Period , which picks up where the Permian left off after its mass extinction event,”
“The end of the Permian saw nearly 90 percent of all life of Earth wiped out,” he continued, once he had handed out his notes, “it was also known as the Great Dying and afterwards, the Triassic Period began nearly 252 million years ago and it is this period that saw the evolution of dinosaurs that we’ve come to understand today,”
“So what is a Dinosaur?” he looked around the class, “dinosaurs are archosaurs, a larger group of reptiles that first first appeared at the start of the Triassic Period, there was a lot of changes in this period that allowed for the appearance of the dinosaurs,” he paused, “after the great dying, the climate in particular was less extreme - there were no polar ice caps for instance, the biological habitats weren’t as diverse”
“The landscape was also very different, in the Triassic all the continents were still merged into one supercontinent called Pangea,” he added, “and it was surrounded by a large ocean called Panthalassa,”
“The Triassic Period is the beginning of the Mesozoic Era and in the next couple of weeks we will also be looking at the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods,” he continued, “The first dinosaurs appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago,” he went on, “even though they weren’t the dominant species at the time, some examples of these dinosaurs are theCoaelophysis the Melanorosaurus and the Plateosaurus,'
“For next week, I’d like you to prepare a report on an animal of your choice that lived in the Triassic period, you will be expected to give a brief presentation as well on your research,”
“Good morning,” he said as he stared the lecture, “this week we’re going to begin covering dinosaurs, which seemed to be a point of interest for most of you last week, this is easily a big enough topic to cover an entire course but we’ll go through the cliff notes version over the next few weeks to give an overview of just how dinosaurs came to evolve,”
“Last week I mentioned Rex was from the Permian period, which is actually a good segue into talking about the ‘Age of the Dinosaurs’ so to speak,” he explained as he began to hand out his different notes on the topic, “the first period we’re going to be covering today is the Triassic Period , which picks up where the Permian left off after its mass extinction event,”
“The end of the Permian saw nearly 90 percent of all life of Earth wiped out,” he continued, once he had handed out his notes, “it was also known as the Great Dying and afterwards, the Triassic Period began nearly 252 million years ago and it is this period that saw the evolution of dinosaurs that we’ve come to understand today,”
“So what is a Dinosaur?” he looked around the class, “dinosaurs are archosaurs, a larger group of reptiles that first first appeared at the start of the Triassic Period, there was a lot of changes in this period that allowed for the appearance of the dinosaurs,” he paused, “after the great dying, the climate in particular was less extreme - there were no polar ice caps for instance, the biological habitats weren’t as diverse”
“The landscape was also very different, in the Triassic all the continents were still merged into one supercontinent called Pangea,” he added, “and it was surrounded by a large ocean called Panthalassa,”
“The Triassic Period is the beginning of the Mesozoic Era and in the next couple of weeks we will also be looking at the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods,” he continued, “The first dinosaurs appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago,” he went on, “even though they weren’t the dominant species at the time, some examples of these dinosaurs are theCoaelophysis the Melanorosaurus and the Plateosaurus,'
“For next week, I’d like you to prepare a report on an animal of your choice that lived in the Triassic period, you will be expected to give a brief presentation as well on your research,”