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climate incluence |
diversity and distribution of animals and plants during the mesozoic era |
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mesozoic time climate |
warm and uniform climate |
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plant life in cretaceous period |
appearance and expansion of angiosperm plants |
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late triassic |
dinosaurs appeared and held dominion over all land vertebrates |
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saurischia dinosaur |
plant eating sauropods and flesh eating theropoda. lizard hipped |
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ornithischia dinosaur |
bipedal ornithopod, marginocephalians, and thyreophorans. bird hipped |
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mesozoic seas |
marine reptile predators |
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jurassic |
aerial reptiles could fly |
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mammals evolving |
triassic, became mammal like reptiles and by cretaceous had changed from mouse size to dog size |
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mesozoic extinction |
major extinction |
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balance between incoming and outgoing radiation from the sun |
incluenced by: configuration of oceans, mountain systems, snow color or vegetation cover, carbon dioxide, continents location, volcanoes, astronomical changes |
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theropods |
dominant land predators of mesozoic era |
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thyreophorans |
shield beares, armor of plates |
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evidence there were tiny mammals in mesozoic |
differentiation of teeth, single ear bone, whisker pits, articulation of the jaw |
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thin ocean opening |
late jurassic |
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mid mesozoic |
hot and dry climate |
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mid mesozoic |
subduction created island arcs |
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mid mesozoic replies |
flying! swimming! turtles! |
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mid mesozoic dinosaurs |
appear at end of triassic! they are reptiles, warm-bloodedness, legs beneath bodies |
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Early and Mid mesozoic |
first feathered birds! mammals appeared! |
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late mesozoic |
a sea flooded continent |
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late mesozoic |
volcanic activity |
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late mesozoic |
cretaceous life evolved, bone fish! swimming reptiles and turtles ruled! flowering plants!! yay |
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late mesozoic |
dinosaurs reached evolutionary peak. inhavitated almost every environment, roamed plans, pterosaurs soared, larger brains! |
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late mesozoic extinction |
K-T- boundary event, instantaneous change, mass extinction of most species |
