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Intro to Palaeontology - Thursday, 1st Period
“This week we’re going to be picking up where the Triassic period left off and move into the Jurassic Period,” Cutter told them, “which I am aware is what most people are more familiar with when they think of dinosaurs, I am aware of there being a a fairly popular movie franchise about a dinosaur theme park,”
Maybe one of these days he could show the movie as a lecture instead of actually teach, he filed that away as a possible class.
“So before we get into today’s lecture, we’ll begin with the reports I asked you to prepare for this week on an animal from the Triassic period and then we’ll start our lecture,”
Once the presentations were over Cutter handed out the notes that he had prepared for this week’s topic.
“The Jurassic Period lasts from 201.3 million years to 145 million years ago,” Cutter started his lecture, “it is also the second period in the Mesozoic Era, it is in this time that Pangea began to break apart and the climate in this period was characterised by being humid and wet. it was also in this period that allowed for many new species to thrive after the near total extinction event at the end of the Triassic and it is when dinosaurs truly began to become the dominant species on the planet,”
“In addition to this, marine life also flourished, after the extinction event there were very few species left and at the start of the Jurassic saw a resurgence in activity that it hadn’t seen in nearly four million years,”
He paused, “the Jurassic Period is also noteworthy since there are many species that can trace back their evolution to this time period, there have been bird fossils found in rocks from the Jurassic Period, have been traced back to the Archaeopteryx, which is considered to be the earliest bird,”
“Particular types of dinosaurs that lived in this period are the Stegosaurus and the Mamenchisaurus
“For next week I’d like you to prepare a report on an animal that lived in the Jurassic Period,”
Maybe one of these days he could show the movie as a lecture instead of actually teach, he filed that away as a possible class.
“So before we get into today’s lecture, we’ll begin with the reports I asked you to prepare for this week on an animal from the Triassic period and then we’ll start our lecture,”
Once the presentations were over Cutter handed out the notes that he had prepared for this week’s topic.
“The Jurassic Period lasts from 201.3 million years to 145 million years ago,” Cutter started his lecture, “it is also the second period in the Mesozoic Era, it is in this time that Pangea began to break apart and the climate in this period was characterised by being humid and wet. it was also in this period that allowed for many new species to thrive after the near total extinction event at the end of the Triassic and it is when dinosaurs truly began to become the dominant species on the planet,”
“In addition to this, marine life also flourished, after the extinction event there were very few species left and at the start of the Jurassic saw a resurgence in activity that it hadn’t seen in nearly four million years,”
He paused, “the Jurassic Period is also noteworthy since there are many species that can trace back their evolution to this time period, there have been bird fossils found in rocks from the Jurassic Period, have been traced back to the Archaeopteryx, which is considered to be the earliest bird,”
“Particular types of dinosaurs that lived in this period are the Stegosaurus and the Mamenchisaurus
“For next week I’d like you to prepare a report on an animal that lived in the Jurassic Period,”